?F FL LIB, 
:UMENTS OEPT 
OSITORY 
S. R. A— B."§. 68. 
Issued October, 1927. 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY-ACT REGULATIONS AND TEXT 
OF FEDERAL LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS l 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Migrator v-bird treaty-act regulations 1 
Convention between the United States and Gi^at Britain for the protection of migra- 
tory birds in the United States and Canada 7 
Migratory-bird treaty act 10 
Lacey Act, regulating interstate commerce in game 12 
Law protecting wild animals and birds and their eggs on Federal refuges 13 
Regulations governing hunting on national forests 13 
Fires on the public domain . 13 
Provisions of tariff act regulating importation of plumage, game, etc 14 
Canadian tariff act prohibiting importation of plumage, mongooses, and certain 
birds 15 
MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY-ACT REGULATIONS 
[As approved and promulgated bv the President, July 31, 1918, and amended October 25, 
1918, July 28, 1919, July 9. 1920, March 3, 1921, May 17, 1921, March 8. 1922, April 
10, 1923, June 11, 1923. April 11, 1924. July 2, 1924, June 22, 1925, March 8, 1926, 
April 22, 1926, June 18, 1926, and April 4 and 21 and September 6, 1927] 
Regulation 1. — Definitions of Migratory Birds 
Migratory birds, included in the terms of the convention between the United 
States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded 
August 16, 1916, are as follows : 
1. Migratory game birds: 
(a) Anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 
(&) 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 shorebirds, including avocets, curlews, dowitchers. godwits, 
knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, 
turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. 
(e) Columbidae, or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. 
2. Migratory insectivorous birds: Cuckoos; flickers and other woodpeckers: 
niuhthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor-wills; swifts; hummingbirds; flycatch- 
ers; bobolinks, meadowlarks, and orioles: grosbeaks; tanagers ; martins and 
other swallows; waxwings ; -in-ikes '■ vireos; warblers; pipits; catbirds and 
brown thrashers ; wrens ; brown creepers ; nuthatches ; chickadees and titmice : 
kinglets and gnat catchers ; robins and other thrushes ; and all other perching 
birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 
1 Summarized information concerning open seasons on game, licenses, bag limits, pos- 
session, sale, interstate transportation, and provisions relating to imported game and 
game raised in captivity is published in the annual Farmers' Bulletin of the United States 
Department of Agriculture on the game laws, which may be had from the department 
upon request. 
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