4 BUEEAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
Fe Raihvay crosses the same; thence with the center of the track of the said 
G. C. & S. F. R. R., in an easterly direction through the towns of Navasota, 
Montgomery, and Conroe, to the point at or near Cleveland, where said 
G. C. & S. F. R. R. crosses the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad ; thence 
with the center of said H, E. & W. T. R. R. track to the point in said line, 
where it strikes the Louisiana line, the open season sJiall be from September 1 
to December 15; and in that portion of Texas lying south and east of the Ime 
above described the open season shall be from November 1 to December 31 ; 
In South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana the open 
season shall be from September 1 to September 30 and from November 20 to 
January 31 ; and 
In Georgia the open season shall be from October 16 to January 31. 
[As amended October 25. 1918 ; July 28, 1919 ; July 9, 1920 ; May 17, 1921 ; March 8, 
1922 ; 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, and August 
16, 1928.] 
Regulation 5. — Bag Limits on Certain Migratory Game Birds 
A person may take in any one day during the open seasons prescribed there- 
for in regulation 4 not to exceed the following numbers of migratory game 
birds, which numbers shall include all birds taken by any other person who 
for hire accompanies or assists him in taking migratory birds : 
Ducks (except wood duck and eider ducks). — Twenty-five in the aggregate 
of all kinds. 
Geese. — Eight in the aggregate of all kinds. 
Brant. — Eight. 
Rails and gallinules (except sora and coot). — Twenty-five in the aggregate 
of all kinds, but not more than 15 of any one species. 
Sora. — Twenty-five. 
Coo^.— Twenty-five. 
Wilson snipe or jacksnlpe. — Twenty. 
Woodcock. — Four. 
Doves ( mourning ) . — Twenty-five. 
[As amended October 25, 1918; July 28, 1919; March 3, 1921; March 8, 1926; and 
April 4, 1927.] 
Regulation 6. — Shipment, Transportation, and Possession of Certain Migratory 
Game JBirds 
Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gal- 
linules, woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning doves and parts 
thereof legally taken may be transported in or out of the State where taken 
during the lespective open seasons in that State, and may be imported from 
Canada during the open season in the Province where taken, in any manner, 
but not more than the number thereof that may be taken in two days by one 
person under these regulations shall be transported by one person in one 
calendar week out of the State where taken ; any such migratory game birds 
or parts thereof in transit during the open season may continue in transit 
such additional time immediately succeeding such open sej"<on, not to exceed 
5 days, necessary to deliver the same to their destination, and may be possessed 
in any State, Territory, or District during the period constituting the open 
season where killed, and for an additional period of 10 days next succeeding 
said open season: and any package in which migratory game birds or parts 
thereof are trans])orted shall have the name and address of the shii)])er and 
of the consignee and an accurate statement of the numbers and kinds of 
birds contained therein clearly and conspicuously marked on the outside 
thereof; but no such birds shall be transported from any State, Territory, 
or District to or througli another State, Territory, or District or to or through 
a Province of the Dominion of Canada contrary to the laws of the State, 
Territory, or District, or Province of the Dominion of Canada in which they 
were taken or from which they are transported ; nor shall any such birds 
be transported into any State, Territory, or District from another Slate. Terri- 
tory, or District, or from any State, Territory, or District into any Province 
of the Dominion of Canada at a lime when such State, Territory, or District, 
or Province of the Dominion of Canada prohibits the possession or transport- 
ing thereof. 
[As amended October 25, 1918 ; July 9, 1920 ; March 8, 1926 ; and April 4, 1927.] 
