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Sec. 12. Nothing in tills Act sliall be construed to prevent the breeding of 

 migratory game birds on farms and preserves and the sale of birds so bred 

 under proper regulation for the purpose of increasing the food supply. 



Sec. 13. That this Act shall become effective immediately upon its passage 

 and approval. 



MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIOJiS. 



[As approved and promulgated by the President, July 31, 1918, and amended October 26, 

 1918, July 28, 1919, July 9, 1920, March 3, 1921, and May 17, 1921.] 



REGULATION 1 — DEFINITIONS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS. 



Migratory birds, included in the terms of the convention between the United 

 States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded 

 August 16, 1916, are as follows : 



1. Migratory game birds: 



(a) Anatidae, or waterfowl. Including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 

 (6) Gruidae, or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, 

 (o) Rallidae, or rails, including coot, gallinules, and sora and other rails. 



(d) Limicolae, or shorebirds, including avocets, curlews, dowitchers, godwits, 

 toots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, 

 turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. 



(e) Columbidae, or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. 



2. Migratory insectivorous birds: Cuckoos; flickers and other woodpeckers; 

 nighthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor-wills; swifts; hummingbirds; flycatch- 

 ers ; bobolinks, meadowlarks, and orioles ; grosbeaks ; tanagers ; martins and 

 other swallows; waxwings; shrikes; vireos; warblers; pipits; catbirds and 

 brown thrashers ; wrens ; brown creepers ; nuthatches ; chickadees and titmice ; 

 kinglets and gnatcatchers ; robins and other thrushes; and all other perching 

 birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 



3. Other migratory nongame birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, 

 grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shear- 

 waters, and terns. 



[As amended July 9, 1920.] 



REGULATION 2.— DEFINITIONS OF TERMS. 



For the purposes of these regulations the following terms shall be construed, 

 respectively, to mean — 



Secretary. — The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. 

 : Person. — The plural or the singular, as the case demands, including indi- 

 viduals, associations, partnerships, and corporations, unless the context other- 

 wise requires. 



Take. — ^The pursuit, hunting, capture, or killing of migratory birds in the 

 manner and by the means specifically permitted. 



Open season. — The time during which migratory birds may be taken. 



Transport. — Shipping, transporting, carrying, exporting, receiving or deliver- 

 ing for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export. 



REGULATION S.— MEANS BY WHICH MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS MAY BE TAKEN. 



The migratory game birds specified in Regulation 4 hereof may be taken dur- 

 ing the open season with a gun only, not larger than No. 10 gauge, fired from 

 the shoulder, except as specifically permitted by Regulations 7, 8, 9, and 10 

 hereof; they may be taken during the open season from the land and water, 

 with the aid of a dog, the use of decoys, and from a blind or floating device 



