^ BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
Regulation 2. — Definitions of Terms 
For the 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 the singular, as the 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 the means specifically permitted. 
Oi>e)i 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, any boat under sail, any floating device towed by powerboat or 
sailboat, or any sinkbox (battery), except that sinkboxes (batteries) may be used 
in the taking of migratory waterfowl in coastal sounds and bays ( including 
Back Bay, Princess Anne County, State of Virginia) and other coastal waters; 
and nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the use of an airplane, or a 
povrerboat, sailboat, or other floating device for the purpose of concentrating, 
driving, rallying, or stirring up migratory waterfowl. 
[As amended July 28, 1919 ; March 3 and May 17, 1921 ; April 4. 1927 ; and March 2, 
1928.] 
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, respectively, and when so taken may be 
possessed any day in any State, Territory, or District during the period con- 
stituting the 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 {except tcood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, and Wilson 
snipe or jacksnipe. — The open seasons for waterfowl (except wood duck, eider 
ducks, and swans), coot, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe shall be as follows: 
In Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts (except in Nantucket 
and Dukes Counties, and Barnstable County south and east of the Cape Cod 
Canal), Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, 
Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. Colorado, Wyoming, 
Montana, Nevada, and tliat portion of Idaho comprising the counties of 
Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone the open season shall 
be from September 16 to December 31 ; 
In New York (except Long Island) the open season shall be from September 
24 to January 7; 
In that portion of Massachusetts known as Nantucket and Dukes Counties, 
and Barnstable County south and east of the Cape Cod Canal, and in Rhode 
Island. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho (except 
in the counties of Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone), 
California, Oregon, and Washington the open season shall be from October 1 
to January 15 ; 
In that portion of New York known as Long Island, and in N(>\v Jersey, 
Delaware. New ^Mexico, Arizona, that iwrtion of Texas lying west and north of 
