S R. A. B. S. 70. Issued September, 1928. 
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 ' 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Migratory-bird treaty-act regulations 1 
Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migra- 
tory birds in the United States and Canada 7 
Migratory-bird treaty act 10 
Lacev Act, regulating interstate commerce in wild animals 11 
Law'protecting wild animals and birds and their eggs and Government property 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 13 
Canadian tariff act prohibiting inrportatiou of plumage, mongooses, and certain 
birds 15 
Officials from whom copies of game laws may be obtained 16 
MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY-ACT REGULATIONS 
[As approved and promulgated by the President July 31, 1918, and amended October 25, 
1918 • July 28, 1919 ; July 9. 1920 ; March 3 and May 17, 1921 ; March 8, 1922 ; Apnl 
10 and June 11. 1923; April 11 and July 2, 1924; June 22. 1925; March 8. April 22 
and June 18, 1926 ; April 4 and 21 and September 6, 1927 ; and March 2, July 13, aad 
August 16, 1928] 
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) Auatidae. or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 
(&j 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; 
nighthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor-wills ; swifts ; hummingbirds ; flycatch- 
ers ; bobolinks, meadow larks, and orioles; grosbeaks; tanagers ; martins and 
other swallows; waxwings ; shrikes; vireos ; warl>lers; pipits; catbirds and 
brown thrashers ; wrens ; brown creepers ; nuthatches ; chickadees and titmice ; 
kinglets and gnat catchers; robins and other thrushes; and a,ll other perching 
birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 
3. Other migratory nongame birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, 
grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puflSns, shear- 
waters, and terns. 
[As amended July 9, 1920.] 
1 Summarized info rmafion concerning ^eh seaPons~lon game, licenses, bag limits, pos- 
session, sale, interstate ttnneportatinn:-: iand provisiohs relating to imported game and 
game raised in| captWfty-ts-^wHwshed m^^+?^amitw^l Fafmers' Bulletin of the United States 
Department oj Agriculture on the game laws, ^fhich may be had from the department 
upon request. _ . . _ 
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