THE GAME BREEDER 



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PERMITS TO TRAP AND SELL WILD FOWL. 



[Many inquiries have been made concerning the methods of obtaining permits to trap and 

 ■sell wild fowl. Readers who have obtained applications for permits have not understood them 

 or have been at a loss how to properly make them out. The confusion has resulted partly from 

 the fact that two separate and distinct forms of application are issued and some of the require- 

 ments can not possibly be complied with by most persons. Where the requirements are im- 

 possible they seem to be in violation of Section 12 of the Migratory Bird law which was added 

 to protect Game Breeders, and they are therefore void, and no attention should be paid to them. 

 Some of the permits contain a clause prohibiting the applicant from shooting the ducks. This 

 prohibition is in violation of Section 12 and is void on that account. The Biological Survey will 

 issue a new permit to those holding permits preventing shooting and did so promptly when the 

 Long Island Game Breeders Association notified the Survey of the error in the permit issued 

 to the Association. Readers will find the followmg instructions sufficient to enable them to 

 secure both permits where it is posible to do so. No charge is made for issuing them. — Editor.] 



How to Obtain Them. 



1. The application for permits should 

 be addressed to Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief 

 of the Biological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



A simple letter saying: "Please send 

 me the two applications for trapping and 

 selling wild fowl," is sufficient. 



Upon receipt of this letter the depart- 

 ment will send two forms for applica- 

 tions which should he filled out by the 

 applicant. 



One of these forms is for a permit to 

 trap wild fowl ; the other is for a breed- 

 er's permit permitting the breeding of 

 the fowl and the sale of the birds for 

 breeding purposes and for food, after 

 they are shot. 



The two regulations under which per- 

 mits are issued are as follows : 



Regulation 8. — Permits to Propagate 

 and Sell Migratory Waterfowl. 



Paragraph 2 of Regulation 8 is amended so 

 as to read as follows : 



2. A person authorized by a permit issued 

 by the Secretary may possess, buy, sell, and 

 transport migratory waterfowl and their in- 

 crease and eggs in any manner and at any time 

 for propagating purposes ; and migratory 

 waterfowl, except the birds taken under para- 

 graph 1 of this regulation, so possessed may 

 be killed by him at any time, in any manner, 

 except that they may be killed by shooting 

 only during the open season for waterfowl in 

 the State where taken, and the unplucked car- 

 casses and the plucked carcasses, with heads 

 and feet attached thereto, of the birds so killed 

 may be sold and transported by him in any 

 manner and at any time to any person for 

 actual consumption, or to the keeper of a hotel, 

 restaurant, or boarding house, retail dealer in 



meat or game, or a club, for sale or service to 

 their patrons, who may possess such carcasses 

 for actual consumption without a permit, but 

 after midnight of March 31, 1919, no migratory 

 waterfowl killed by shooting shall be bought 

 or sold unless each bird before attaining the 

 age of four weeks shall have had removed 

 from the web of one foot a portion thereof in 

 the form of a "V" large enough to make a 

 permanent well-defined mark which shall be 

 sufficient to identify them as birds raised in 

 domestication under a permit. 



Regulation 9. — Permits to Collect 

 Migratory Birds for Scientific 

 Purposes. 



Regulation 9 is amended so as to read as 

 follows : 



A person may take in any manner and at 

 any time migratory birds and their nests and 

 eggs for scientific purposes when authorized 

 by a permit issued by the Secretary, which 

 permit shall be carried on his person when he 

 is collecting specimens thereunder and shall 

 be exhibited to any person requesting to see 

 the same. 



Application for a permit must be addressed 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, and must contain the following infor- 

 mation : Name and address of applicant and 

 name of State, Territory, or District in which 

 specimens are proposed to be taken and the 

 purpose for which they are intended. Each 

 application shall be accompanied by certificates 

 from two well-known ornithologists that the 

 applicant is a fit person to be entrusted with a 

 permit. 



The permit will authorize the holder thereof 

 to possess, buy, sell, and transport in any 

 manner and at any time migratory birds, parts 

 thereof, and their nests and eggs for scientific 

 purposes. Public museums, zoological parks 

 and societies, and public scientific and educa- 

 tional institutions may possess, buy, sell, and 

 transport in any manner and at any time 

 migratory birds and parts thereof, and their 

 nests and eggs for scientific purposes without 



