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Regulation 2. Closed Season at Night. 



No game or insectivorous migratory bird may be killed be- 

 tween sunset and sunrise. 



Regulation 3 provides a continuous closed season on migratory 

 insectivorous birds, except on reed birds or rice birds in 

 a few states. 



Regulation 4. Five-year Closed Season on Certain Game Birds, 

 ending Sept. 1, 191 8. 

 Viz: band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sand hill, and whoop- 

 ing cranes, swans, curlew, and all shore birds except the 

 black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or jack snipe, wood- 

 cock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs ; also a closed season 

 for the same time on wood ducks in all the New England and 

 many other states. 



Regulation 5. Closed Season on Certain Navigable Rivers. 



The Mississippi from Minneapolis to Memphis, and the 

 Missouri from Bismarck, N. Dak., to Nebraska City, Neb. 



Regulation 6. Zones. 



Zone No. 1, the Breeding Zone, comprising states wholly or 

 in part north of latitute 40 degrees and the Ohio River, 25 

 states; Zone 2, south of the line above mentioned, 23 states, 

 called the wintering zone. 



Regulation 7. Construction. 



In Regulations 8 and 9 the time designated as a Closed 

 Season includes the first day named and excludes the last day 

 thereof. 



Regulation 8. Closed Season in Zone No. 1. 



Waterfowl, between Dec. 16 and Sept. 1 next following. 

 Exception: In Massachusetts, between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15. 

 Rails: Closed season on rails, coots and gallinules, between 

 Dec. 1 and Sept. 1. Exception: In Massachusetts, between 

 Dec. 1 and Aug. 15. Woodcock: between Dec. 1 and Oct. 1. 

 Exception: In Massachusetts, Dec. 1 to Oct. 10. Shore Birds: 

 The closed season on black-breasted and golden plover, jack 

 snipe or Wilson snipe, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs, is 

 between Dec. 16 and Sept. 1 next following. Exception: In 

 Massachusetts, between Dec. 1 and Aug. 15. 



