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REGULATION I. DEFINITIONS 



For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be 

 considered migratory game birds: 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, 

 geese, and swans. 



(b) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and 

 whooping cranes. 



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

 and other rails. 



(d) Limicolae or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, 

 dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, 

 plover, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, 

 woodcock, and yellow-legs. 



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



For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be 

 considered migratory insectivorous birds: 



(J) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flycatchers, 

 grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadow larks, 

 night hawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, 

 swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, 

 waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all 

 other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 



REGULATION 2. CLOSED SEASONS AT NIGHT 



A daily closed season on all migratory game and insectivo- 

 rous birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise. 



Regulation 3. closed season on insectivorous birds 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall 

 continue to December 31, 191 3, and each year thereafter shall 

 begin January 1 and continue to December 31, both dates 

 inclusive, provided that nothing in this regulation shall be 

 construed to prevent the issue of premits for collecting such 

 birds for scientific purposes in accordance with the laws and 

 regulations in force in the respective States and Territories 

 and the District of Columbia; and provided further that the 

 closed season on reedbirds or ricebirds in Delaware, Mary- 



