Z BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
3. Other migratory nonyame birds: Auks, anklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, 
grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shear- 
waters, and terns. 
[As amended July 9, 1920.] 
Regulation 2. — Definitions of Terms 
For tbe purposes of these regulations the following terms shall be construed, 
respectively, to mean — 
secretary. — The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. 
Person. — The plural or tbe singular, as tbe case demands, including indi- 
viduals, associations, partnerships, and corporations, unless the context other- 
wise requires. 
Take. — The pursuit, hunting, capture, or killing of migratory birds in the 
manner and by tbe means specifically permitted. 
Opt n season. — The time during which migratory birds may be taken. 
Transport. — Shipping, transporting, carrying, exporting, receiving or deliver- 
ing for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export. 
Regulation 3. — Means by Which Migratory Game Birds May be Taken 
The migratory game birds specified in regulation 4 hereof may be taken 
during the open season with a gun only, not larger than No. 10 gauge, fired 
from the shoulder, except as specifically permitted by regulations 7, 8. 9. and 10 
hereof; they may be taken during the open season from the land and water, 
with the aid of a dog, the use of decoys, and from a blind or floating device ; 
but nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the use of an airplane, power- 
boat, sailboat, boat under sail, floating device towed by powerboat or sail- 
boat, or any sinkbox (battery), except that sinkboxes (batteries) may be used 
in the taking of waterfowl in coastal sounds and bays (including Back Bay. 
Princess Anne County, State of Virginia) and other coastal waters if placed 
not less than 700 yards from the shore line of the mainland at ordinary high 
tide and not less than 700 yards from any island at ordinary high tide, and not 
less than 700 yards from any other sinkbox (battery) ; and nothing herein shall 
be deemed to permit the use of an airplane, or a powerboat, sailboat, or other 
floating device for tbe purpose of concentrating, driving, rallying, or stirring 
up migratory waterfowl. 
[As amended July 28, 1919, March 3, 1921. May 17, 1921, and April 4, 1927.] 
Regulation 4. — Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migratory Game 
Birds 
For the purpose of this regulation, each period of time herein prescribed as 
an open season shall be construed to include the first and last days thereof. 
Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gal- 
linules, woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe. and mourning doves may be taken 
each day from half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open seasons 
prescribed therefor in this regulation by the means and in the numbers per- 
mitted by regulations 3 and 5 hereof, respectivly. and when so taken may be 
possessed any day in any State, Territory, or District during the period con- 
stituting tbe open season where killed and for an additional period of 10 days 
next succeeding said open season, but no such bird shall be possessed in a State. 
Territory, or District at a time when such State. Territory, or District prohibits 
the possession thereof. 
Waterfowl {eaeoept wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, yallinules, 
and WUson snipe or jacksnipe. — The open seasons for waterfowl (except wood 
duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe 
shall be as follows : 
In Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts (except in Nantucket 
and Dukes Counties), Ohio. West Virginia, Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Iowa. Missouri, North Dakota. South Dakota. Nebraska. Kansas. Colorado. 
Wyoming, Montana. Nevada, and that portion of Idaho comprising the counties 
of Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone the open season shall 
lie from September "Hi to December 31; 
