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following shall be considered migratory 
game birds: 
(a) 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, gal- 
linules, and sora and other rails. 
(d) Limicolae or shore birds, including 
avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, 
oyster catchers, phalaropes, plover, sand- 
pipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, 
willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. 
(e) Columbidae or pigeons, including 
doves and wild pigeons. 
For the purposes of these regulations the 
following shall be considered migratory in- 
sectivorous birds: 
(f) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuck- 
oos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, hum- 
mingbirds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, 
nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, 
robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, 
titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax- 
wings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and 
wrens, and all other perching birds which 
feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 
Regulation 2. Closed season at Night. 
A daily closed season on all migratory 
game and insectivorous birds shall extend 
from sunset to sunrise. 
Regulation 3. Closed season on Insectivor- 
ous Birds. 
A closed season on migratory insectivor- 
ous birds shall continue throughout each 
year, except that the closed season on reed- 
birds or ricehirds in New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of 
Columbia,' Virginia, North Carolina, and 
South Carolina shall commence November 1 
and end August 31, next following, both 
dates inclusive: Provided, That nothing in 
this or any other of these regulations shall 
be construed to prevent the issue of permits 
for collecting birds for scientific purposes 
in accordance with the laws and regulations 
in force in the respective States and Ter- 
ritories and the District of Columbia. 
Regulation 4. Closed seasons on Certain 
Game Birds. 
A closed season shall continue until Sep- 
tember 1, 1918, on the following migratory 
game birds: Band-tailed pigeons, little 
brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, wood 
ducks, swans, curlew, willet, and all shore 
birds except the black-breasted and golden 
plover, Wilson or jacksnipe, woodcock, and 
the greater and lesser yellowlegs. 
A closed season shall also continue until 
September 1, 1918, on rails in California and 
Vermont and on woodcock in Illinois and 
Missouri. 
Regulation 5. Zones. 
The following zones for the protection of 
migratory game and insectivorous birds are 
hereby established. 
Zone No. 1 , the breeding zone comprising 
the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connec- 
ticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, West Vir- 
ginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebras- 
ka, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, 
Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and 
Washington — 31 States. 
Zone No. 2, the wintering zone compris- 
ing the States of Delaware, Maryland, Dis- 
trict of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisi- 
ana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari- 
zona, and California — 17 States, and the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 
Regulation 6. Construction. 
For the purposes of regulations 7 and 8 
each period of time therein prescribed as a 
closed season shall be construed to include 
the first and last day thereof. 
Regulation 7. Closed Seasons in Zone No. 1. 
Waterfowl . — The closed season on water- 
fowl, including coots and gallinules, shall be 
between December 21 and September 6 
next following, except as follows: 
Exceptions: In Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, New York (except Long Island), 
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and 
West Virginia the closed season shall be 
between January 1 and September 15; 
In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connec- 
ticut, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Ne- 
vada the closed season shall be between 
January 16 and September 30; and 
In Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and 
Missouri the closed season shall be between 
March 11 and September 15 and between 
November 16 and February 9. 
Rails . — The closed season on sora and 
other rails, excluding coots and gallinules, 
shall be between December 1 and August 31 
next following, except as follows: 
Exception: In Vermont the closed sea- 
son shall continue until the open season 
in 1918. 
Shorebirds . — The closed season on black- 
breasted and golden plover and greater and 
