S.R.A. — B.S. 78 Issued September 1033 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS AND 
TEXT Or FEDERAL LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND 
BIRDS x 
CONTENTS 
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Migratory Bird Treaty Act regulations 1 
Convention between the United states and Great Britain for the protection of mi- 
gratory birds in t lie United Stales and Canada 9 
Migratory Bird Treaty Act 11 
Laeey Act, regulating interstate commerce in wild animals 13 
Law protecting wild animals and birds and their eggs and Government property on 
Federal refuges 1 4 
Hunting on national forests 15 
Fires on public domain 15 
Provisions of tariff act regulating Importation of plumage, game, etc !•" 
Canadian tariff act prohibiting Importation of plumage, mongooses, and certain 
birds is 
Field service, Division of Game and Bird Conservation, Bureau of Biological Survey. I'fl 
Officials from whom copies of game laws may be obtained L'o 
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 :\ and May 17. liiUl : March s, r.'L»L' : April 
10 and June 11. 1923; April 11 and July 2, 1!>24 ; June 2L\ 1925 ; March 8, April 22, 
and June 18, 1926; April 4 and 21. and September 6, 1027: March 2, July 13, and 
August IB, L928; April 2H and December 31, 1929; May 2:', and August 25, 1930; 
March 17, Augusl 25, and September 12. l!t:;i ; July 20. 1932; and September 11, 1933J 
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: 
en Anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 
(b) 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 shore birds, including avocets, curlews, dowitcliers, god- 
wits, 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 bullbats and whip-poor-wills: swifts; humming birds; flycatch- 
ers; bobolinks, meadow larks, and orioles; grosbeaks, tanager-. martins and 
other swallows; waxwings; shrikes; 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. 
3. Other migratory nongame birds: Auks, anklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, 
grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrols, puffins, shear- 
waters, and terns. 
[As amended July 9, 1020.] 
Regulation 2. — Definitions of Terms 
For the purposes of these regulations the following terms shall be construed. 
respectively, to mean — 
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1 Persons desiring in fm^^^rV^ftiWvP'rnrtlu.r restrictions set by State law or regu- 
lation on seasons, ^imits. possession, and other ranting provisions, should communicate 
with the appropriate State officials, whose addresses are given on page L'o of this 
publication. 
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