Wilson Snipe, or Jacksnipe. —Twenty-five. 
Wood Cock. —Six. 
Doves (mourning).—Twenty-five. 
(As amended October 25, 1918, and July 28, 1919). 
Regulation 6.—Shipment and Transportation of Certain 
Migratory Game Birds. 
Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks and swans), rails, 
coots, gallinules, blackbellied and golden plovers, greater and 
lesser yellowlegs, woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and 
mourning and whitewinged doves and parts thereof legally taken 
may be transported in or out of the State where taken during 
the respective 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 regula¬ 
tions 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 
season, not to exceed five days, necessary to deliver the same to 
their destination; and any package in which migratory game 
birds or parts thereof are transported shall have the name and 
address of the shipper 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 through 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 State, 
Territory, or District, or from any State, Territory, or District 
into any Province of the Dominion of Canada at a time when 
such State, Territory, or District, or Province of the Dominion 
of Canada prohibits the possession or transportation thereof. 
(As amended October 25, 1918). 
Regulation 7.—Taking of Certain Migratory or Non-Game Birds 
by Eskimos and Indians in Alaska. 
In Alaska Eskimos and Indians may take for the use of them¬ 
selves and their immediate families, in any manner and at any 
time, and possess and transport auks, auklets, guillemots, murres, 
and puffins and their eggs for food, and their skins for clothing. 
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Regulation 8.—Permits to Propagate and Sell Migratory Water- 
fowl. 
1. A person may take in any manner and at any time 
migratory waterfowl and their eggs for propagation purposes 
when authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary. Water- 
fowl and their eggs so taken may be possessed by the permittee 
and may be sold and transported by him for propagating pur¬ 
poses to any person holding a permit issued by the Secretary in 
accordance with the provisions of this regulation. 
2. A person authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary 
may possess, buy, sell, and transport migratory waterfowl and 
their increase and eggs in any manner and at any time for 
propagating purposes; and migratory waterfowls, except the 
birds taken under paragraph 1 of this regulation, so possessed 
may be killed by him at anytime, in any manner, except that they 
may be killed by shooting only during the open season for water- 
fowl in the State where taken, and the unplucked carcasses and 
the plucked carcasses, with heads and feet attached thereto, of the 
birds so killed may be sold and transported by him in any 
manner and at any time to any person for actual consumption, 
or to the keeper of a hotel, restaurant, or boarding house, retail 
dealer in meat or game, or a club, for sale or service to their 
patrons, who may possess such carcasses for actual consumption 
without a permit, but after midnight of March 31, 1919, no 
migratory waterfowl killed by shooting shall be bought or sold 
unless each bird before attaining the age of four weeks shall 
have had removed from the web of one foot a portion thereof in 
the form of a “V” large enough to make a permanent well 
defined mark which shall be sufficient to identify them as birds 
raised in domestication under a permit. 
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3. Any package in which waterfowl or parts thereof or their 
eggs are transported shall have plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside thereof the name and address of the per¬ 
mittee, the number of his permit, the name and address of the 
consignee, and an accurate statement of the number and kinds of 
birds or eggs contained therein. 
4. Applications for permits must be addressed to the 
Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and must contain 
the following information: Name and address of applicant; 
place where the business is to be carried on; number of acres of 
land used in the business and whether owned or leased by the 
applicant ; number of each species of waterfowl in possession of 
applicant; names of species and number of birds or eggs of 
each species if permission is asked to take waterfowl or their 
eggs; and the particular locality where it is desired to take such 
waterfowl or eggs. 
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