THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 



Another feature of the Audubon work was also 

 completed by this section of the new regulations. 

 This is the safeguarding of all song and insect- 

 eating birds in the States of Montana, Idaho, Neva- 

 da, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas, and New 

 Mexico, constituting the group of states whose legis- 

 latures had thus far withstood the importunities of the 

 Audubon workers to extend protection to such birds. 



Regulation Number Four provided for an absolute 

 closed hunting season on sixty-two species of water 

 birds until September, 191 8. 



The above includes what we might call some 

 of the minor regulations proposed by the Biological 

 Survey Committee. Then comes the big regula- 

 tion, the one which was of absorbing interest to 

 every member of the vast army of five million 

 hunters in the United States. This is the regulation 

 which divides the country into zones and prescribes 

 the shooting seasons in each. Touching on this 

 point the Government experts already mentioned 

 gave out this statement by way of explanation: 

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