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pared and hereby makes public, for examina- 

 tion and consideration before final adoptipn, 

 the following regulations : 



Regulation 1. — Definitions. 



For the purposes of these regulations the 

 following shall be considered migratory game 

 birds : 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, incluing, brant, 

 wild ducks, geese, and swans. 



(b) Gruidae or cranes, including little 

 brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. 



(c) Rallidae or rails, including coots, galli- 

 nules, and sora and other rails. 



(d) Limicolae or shore birds, including avo- 

 cets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oys- 

 ter catchers, phalaropes, plover, sandpipers, • 

 snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, 

 woodcock, and yellowlegs. 



(e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves 

 and wild pigeons. 



For the purposes of these regulations the 

 following shall be , considered migratory in- 

 sectivorous birds : 



(f) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, 

 flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, 

 kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or 

 bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, 

 swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, 

 vireos, warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills, 

 woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perch- 

 ing birds which feed entirely or chiefly on 

 insects. 



Regulation 2. — Closed Season at Njght. 



A daily closed season on all migratory game 

 and insectivorous birds shall extend from sun- 

 set to sunrise. 



Regulation 3. — Closed Season on Insectivor- 

 ous Birds. 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous 

 birds shall continue throughout each year, ex- 

 cept that the closed season on reedbirds or ' 

 ricebirds in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- 

 ware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Vir- 

 ginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina 

 shall commence November 1 and end August 

 31, next following, both dates inclusive : Pro- 

 zided, That nothing in this or any other of 

 these regulations shall be construed to prevent 

 the issue of permits for collecting birds for 

 scientific purposes in accordance with the laws 

 and regulations in force in the respective 

 States and Territories and' the District of 

 Columbia. 



Regulation 4. — Closed Seasons on Certain 

 Game Birds. 



A closed season shall continue until Sep- 

 tember 1, 1918, on the following migratory 

 game birds : Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, 

 sandhill, and whooping cranes, wood ducks, 

 swans, curlew, willet, and all shore birds ex- 

 cept the black-breasted and golden plover, 

 Wilson or jacksnipe, woodcock, and the great- 

 er or lesser yellowlegs. 



A closed season shall also continue until 



September 1, ,19,18,. on .rails in California and,. 

 Vermont and ,. on woodcock in Illinois and 

 Missouri. . ,. . _ ,.._., . „ , 



Regulation 5— Zones.- /■• t ' 



The following zones for the protection of 

 migratory game and insectivorous birds are 

 liiiieoy established. 



Zone No.. 1. — The. breeding zone comprising 

 the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 

 mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- 

 cut, New ■ YorK, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, West Vir- 

 ginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, 

 North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan- 

 sas, ' Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, 

 Idaho, Utah, Nc\ ada, . Oregon and Washing- 

 ton— 31 States. 



Zone No. 2. — The wintering zone comprising 

 the States of Delaware, Maryland, District of 

 Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- 

 sippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, 

 Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Cali- 

 fornia-— 17 States, and the District of Co- 

 lumbia. 



Regulation 6. — Construction. 



For the purposes of regulations 7 and 8 

 each period of time therein prescribed as a 

 closed season shall be construed to include the 

 first and last day thereof. 



Regulation 7.— Closed Seasons in Zone No. 1 



Waterfowl. — The closed season on water- 

 fowl, including coots and gallinules, shall be 

 between December 21 and September 6 next 

 following, except as follows : 



Exceptions : In Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, New York (except Long, Island), 

 Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, .and West 

 Virginia the closed season shall be between 

 January 1 and September 16-; 



In Massuchusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- 

 cut, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada the 

 closed season shall be between January 16 and 

 September 30; and 



In Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and 

 Missouri the closed season shall be between 

 March 11 and September 15 and between No- 

 vember 16 and February 9.. 



Rails. — The closed season on sora and other 

 rails, excluding coots and gallinules, shall be 

 between December 1 and August 31 next fol- 

 lowing, except as follows : 



Exception : In Vermont the closed season 

 shall continue until the open season in 1918. 



Shore birds. — The closed season on black- 

 breasted and golden plover and greater and 

 lesser yellowlegs shall be between December 1 

 and August 15 next following, except as fol- 

 lows: 



Exception: In Utah the closed season shall 

 continue until the open season in 1918. 



Jacksnipe.— The closed season on jacksnipe 



