THE GAME BREEDER 



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has nothing to fear from an abundance sold or transported except for propagat- 



of game on the farms which may be 

 used to produce game instead of as har- 

 bors for birds which are classed as song 

 birds. 



The State game departments will be 



ing purposes and then only to a person 

 holding a federal permit. 



A permit issued pursuant to paragraph 

 2 of regulation 8 will not authorize the 

 taking of wild migratory waterfowl for 



far more creditably employed when they any purpose but will authorize the per 



enforce regulations protecting the sales 

 of food than they have been in States 

 where it was fashionable to raid food 

 producers because they had birds or eggs 

 for breeding purposes and in States 

 where the departments put in their time 

 protecting the game song birds against 

 all sportsmen. 



A Memorandum. 



The U. S. Biological Survey has issued 

 the following memorandum relating to 

 permits authorizing traffic in migratory 

 waterfowl and their eggs for propagat- 

 ing purposes. 



The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 



July 3, 1918, provides that: 



,f It shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture 

 or kill, attempt to take, capture or kill, 

 possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to pur- 

 chase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, 

 cause to be shipped, deliver for transporta- 

 tion, transport, cause to be transported, carry 

 or cause to be carried by any means what- 

 ever, receive for shipment, transportation or 

 carriage, or export, at any time or in any 

 manner, any migratory bird, included in the 

 terms of the convention between the United 

 States and Great Britain for the protection 

 of migratory birds concluded August sixteenth, 

 nineteen hundred and sixteen, or any part, nest 

 or egg of any such bird." 



No migratory waterfowl or their eggs 

 can be taken, possessed, sold, purchased, 

 shipped or transported for propagating 

 purposes except as specifically permitted 

 by regulation 8 of the Migratory Bird 

 Treaty Act Regulations. 



Two forms of permits are provided. 

 A permit issued pursuant to paragraph 

 1 of regulation 8 will authorize a person 

 to take a limited number of wild migra- 

 tory waterfowl and their eggs solely for 

 propagating purposes in order to form 

 the nucleus of a breeding stock or to 

 strengthen the strain of the birds he may 

 now have on hand. The wild birds so 

 taken cannot be killed, nor can they be 



mittee to possess, purchase, sell and 

 transport for propagating purposes wild 

 waterfowl, their increase and eggs, law- 

 fully taken and possessed, to possess, 

 purchase, sell, and transport for propa- 

 gating purposes migratory waterfowl 

 lawfully possessed on July 3, 1918, and 

 their increase and eggs ; to kill birds 

 raised in domestication and to sell and 

 transport their carcasses for food pur- 

 poses as provided in said regulation 8. 



Migratory waterfowl lawfully taken 

 and possessed under these permits may 

 be used and transported for ornamen- 

 tal, exhibition, and decoy purposes. 



Forms 279 and 281 furnished by the 

 Bureau should be used in applying for 

 permits under paragraphs 1 and 2, re- 

 spectively. 



Federal permits do not authorize mi- 

 gratory birds to be taken, possessed, or 

 trafficked in contrary to State laws, and 

 all persons are cautioned to comply with 

 the provisions of State laws before 

 operating under federal permits. 



For further information in regard to 

 federal game laws apply to Biological 

 Survey, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. 



Shooting on Farms and Preserves. 



The Biological Survey writes to our 

 readers who ask permits as follows : 

 The sample letter was addressed to Mr. 

 R. E. Bullock, Scarboro Beach Game 

 Farm, Scarboro, Maine. 



Washington, D. C, Oct. 1, 1918. 

 Mr. R. E. Bullock, 



Scarboro, Maine. 

 Dear Sir — We have your letter of 

 September 24 asking to be advised in 

 regard to shooting on game farms and 

 preserves. 



For your information we take pleasure 

 in sending you herewith copy of the 



