APPENDIX A 



Issued June 23, 19 13. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 

 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY— CIRCULAR NO. 92 



HENRY W. HENSHAW, Chief of Bureau 



Proposed Regulations for the Protection of Migratory 



Birds 



Washington, D. C, June 17, 1913. 



Pursuant to the provisions of the act of March 4, 191 3, 

 authorizing and directing the Department of Agriculture to 

 adopt suitable regulations prescribing and fixing closed sea- 

 sons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), regulations, copy of 

 which is hereto annexed, have been prepared, are hereby made 

 public, and are hereby proposed for adoption, after allowing a 

 period of three months in which the same may be examined 

 and considered. The regulations, as finally adopted, will 

 become effective on or after October 1, 1913, whenever 

 approved by the President. 



Public hearings on the proposed regulations will be held by 

 the Bureau of Biological Survey of this department whenever 

 deemed necessary. Inquiries in reference thereto should be 

 addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture. 



B. T. Galloway, 



Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 



Regulations for the Protection of Migratory Birds 



Pursuant to the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913, 

 authorizing and directing the Department of Agriculture to 

 adopt suitable regulations prescribing and fixing closed sea- 

 sons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), having due regard to 

 zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and lines of 

 migratory flight, the Department of Agriculture has adopted 

 the following regulations: 



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