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Upland Plover, Piping and Killdeer Plover, 

 Herons, Bittern, Eagles, Fish Hawks, Marsh 

 Hawks, Small Owls, Gulls and Terns not to be 

 killed, captured or held in possession at any 

 time, or feathers used for millinery purposes. . . . $10-100 



The above is not a complete transcript of the Game Laws. 

 It is intended merely as a concise statement of the provisions 

 most likely to be of general interest. 



Report violations at once to office, Room 158, State House, 

 Boston (Telephone Haymarket 2700), or telephone to the 

 Deputy in your district. 



Penalty for removing or defacing this poster, $25. 



Poster 



Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association* 



Federal Regulations 

 for the 



Protection of Migratory Birds 



Regulation No. 1. Definitions. The migratory game and 

 insectivorous birds are classified as follows : 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl — brant, wild ducks, geese and 

 swans. 



(b) Gruidae, or cranes, including little brown, sand hill, and 

 whooping cranes. 



(c) Rallidae, or rails, including coots, gallinules, sora, and 

 other rails. 



(d) Limicolae, or shore birds ; including avocets, curlew, dow- 

 itchers, godwits, knots, phalaropes, plover, sandpipers, 

 snipe, willet, woodcock, yellowlegs, and a few others. 



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



(f) Migratory insectivorous birds ; bobolinks, catbirds, chick- 

 adees, cuckoos, flickers, nighthawks, nuthatches, orioles, 

 robins, swallows, tanagers, thrushes, vireos, woodpeck- 

 ers, wrens, and other perching birds that feed entirely 

 or chiefly on insects. 



* This was the poster distributed to the schools, Library, etc., in Milton. 



