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States protecting waterfowl or other birds at night or within 

 certain hours between sunset and sunrise so that the birds 

 may be unmolested on their roosting grounds and may have 

 time to feed after sunset or before sunrise. It will make no 

 change in existing law in about one-fourth of the States; it 

 will make existing regulations clearer in 9 States ; it will add an 

 hour's protection, more or less, in the morning and evening in 

 about one-fourth of the States ; and it will regulate night shoot- 

 ing in 14 States which now have no restriction of this kind. 



INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS 



This regulation simply makes uniform the protection now 

 accorded these birds in more than 40 States. It protects the 

 robin, the lark, and other birds in the few States in which they 

 suffer from an open season. It attempts no change in existing 

 regulations regarding the issue of permits for collecting birds 

 for scientific purposes. 



FIVE-YEAR CLOSE SEASONS 



A close season for several years is provided in an effort to 

 harmonize the absolute protection already given some birds 

 in certain States, the demand for five-year close seasons on 

 shore birds, and the necessity for greater protection on other 

 birds which have been hunted beyond the margin of safety. 

 The protection accorded woodcock and rail is already existing 

 law; that on swans has been made uniform throughout all the 

 States, and that on wood ducks extended from a few States in 

 the Northeast to most of the States in Zone No. 1 east of the 

 Mississippi River. The only important additions are the 

 additional protection given band-tailed pigeons in a few States 

 and the close season placed on avocets, cranes, curlew, god- 

 wits, killdeer, stilts, upland plover, willet, and the smaller 

 shore birds. 



NAVIGABLE RIVERS 



The suspension of hunting on the Ohio, Mississippi, and 

 Missouri Rivers allows waterfowl a safe highway from their 

 winter feeding grounds in the lower Mississippi Valley to their 

 nesting grounds in Minnesota and the Dakotas and forms an 



