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transportation from the Dominion of Canada 

 into the United States or from the United 

 States into the Dominion of Canada, an accur- 

 ate statement of the contents. 

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Regulation 11— Sale of migratory game 

 birds lawfully held in cold storage July 31, 

 1918. 



An additional regulation to be known as 

 Regulation 11 shall read as follows: 



A person authorized by a permit issued by 

 the Secretary may possess and may sell and 

 transport until midnight of March 31, 1919, 

 the carcasses of migratory game birds law- 

 fully killed and by him lawfully held in cold 

 storage on July 31, 1918, 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 until midnight of April 5, 1919. 



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Regulation 12 — State laws for the protection 

 of migratory birds. 



An additional regulation to be known as 

 Regulation 12 shall read as follows : 



Nothing in these regulations shall be con- 

 strued to permit the taking, possession, sale, 



purchase, or transportation of migratory 

 birds, their nests and eggs contrary to the 

 laws and regulations of any State, Territory, 

 or District made for the purpose of giving 

 further protection to migratory birds, their 

 nests, and eggs when such laws and regula- 

 tions are not inconsistent with the convention 

 between the United States and Great Britain 

 for the protection of migratory birds con- 

 cluded August 16, 1916, or the Migratory Bird 

 Treaty Act and do not extend the open sea- 

 sons for such birds beyond the dates pre- 

 scribed by these regulations. 



Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, Presi- 

 dent of the United States of America, do 

 hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing 

 amendatory and additional regulations. 



In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 

 hand and caused the seal of the United States 

 of America to be affixed. 



Done in the District of Columbia, this 25th 

 day of October, in the year of our Lord one 

 thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and of 

 the Independence of the United States of 

 America the one hundred and forty-third. 



Woodrow Wilson. 

 By the President : 



Robert Lansing, 

 Secretary of State. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Two Broods of Grouse. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



There are a few grouse living on my 

 place which I have been humoring all 

 summer just so they would get used to 

 the place. They did and by the end of 

 August I was able to count thirteen 

 birds in two covies that have often come 

 to drink inside the enclosure where my 

 ducks are. For more than one reason I 

 make the round of the whole place at any 

 time of the day or night carrying a little 

 .22 repeater. Often 1 sat down just to 

 watch and see and this is what I saw : 

 The two covies traveled together as a 

 rule led — to my knowledge — by two old 

 cocks. Sitting well camouflaged inside 

 the enclosure, I have repeatedly seen the 

 two cocks come in ahead of the rest and 

 lighting on a birch or maple make, so 

 to say, a survey of the field first, often- 

 times sitting there for the better part of 

 15 to 20 minutes before they finally 

 dropped down to drink or for grit at 



which "sign" the covies would invariably 

 follow within the next few seconds and 

 fly right in without any apparent cau- 

 tion. Rather peculiar for our grouse 

 which are more terrestrial in their habits 

 than the grouse of the Northwest and 

 beyond which on the other hand seem to 

 be more arboreal, at least so it seems to 

 me, although I must say that I had 

 neither the occasion nor the inclination 

 in the past to pay much attention to the 

 feathered game. Have you ever made 

 an observation like this? I am sorry, 

 very sorry, to say that between the short 

 time of October 8th and to-day there 

 is but one cock left of the two covies 

 that stayed around, the birds having been 

 either shot or scared away by the shoot- 

 ing of the "liveyeres" — mostly ten gauge 

 guns — some of them muzzle-loaders but 

 all plenty and enough to scare all game 

 within a radius of a couple of miles by 

 their detonation alone. 



I am still waiting for the permit to 

 trap black ducks — and shall by all the 



