2 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S.R.A. 
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. 
Open 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 gage, 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, 
except that in the taking of wild ducks not more than twenty-five (25) live duck 
decoys may be shot over, and in the taking of wild geese in California the use of 
live goose decoys is not permitted ; but nothing herein shall be deemed to 
permit the use of an automobile, airplane, power boat, sailboat, any boat under 
sail, any floating device towed by power boat or sailboat, or any sinkbox (bat- 
tery), 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 power boat, sailboat, or other 
floating device for the purpose of concentrating, driving, rallying, or stirring up 
migratory waterfowl ; and mourning doves shall not be taken at, on, over, or 
within ]00 yards of any place, area, or environment whatever, whereat or 
whereon has been placed, scattered, or distributed any corn, wheat, or other 
grain, salt, or other food designed, intended, or effective to bait, lure, attract, or 
entice such doves. 
[As amended July 28, 1919 ; March 3 and May 17, 1921 ; April 4, 1927 ; March 2, 1928 ; 
April 23, 1929; March 17, 1931; July 20, 1932; and September 11, 1933.] 
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 snow geese and brant in Florida and all States north 
thereof bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, Ross's goose, wood duck, ruddy duck, 
bufflehead duck, and swans), rails, coot, gallinules, woodcock, Wilson's snipe or 
jacksnipe, mourning doves, and band-tailed pigeons may be taken each day from 
half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open seasons prescribed therefor 
in this regulation, except that the hour for the commencement of hunting water- 
fowl, rails, gallinules, coot, and Wilson's snipe on the opening day of the season 
shall be 12 o'clock noon, and they may be taken by the means and in the num- 
bers permitted by regulations 3 and 5 hereof, respectively, and when so taken 
may be possessed in -the numbers permitted by regulation 5 any day 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, 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. Nothing 
herein shall be deemed to permit the taking of migratory birds on any refuue 
established under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18. 1929, 
(45 Stat. 1222-26), nor on any area of the United States set aside by any other 
law. proclamation, or Executive order for use as a wild-life refuge except insofar 
as may be permitted by the Secretary of Agriculture under existing law, nor 
on any area adjacent to any such refuge when such area is designated as a 
closed urea under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. 
Waterfowl {except snow geese and brant in Florida and all States north 
11k ><>(>/ bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. R088'S gOOSe, Wood duck, ruddii duck, 
bufflehead duck, and swans). Wilson's snipe or jacksnipe, and coot. — The open 
Seasons for waterfowl (except snow geese and brant in Florida and all St;itos 
north thereof bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, Ross's goose, wood duck, ruddy 
duck, bufflehead duck, and swans), Wilson's snipe or jacksnipe, and coot shall 
he as follows : 
In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, 
Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, and that 
