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habits, and times and lines of migratory flight, the Department of 
Agriculture has adopted the following regulations: 
Regulation i. Definitions. 
For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be con¬ 
sidered migratory game birds: 
(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and 
swans. 
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(b) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whoop¬ 
ing cranes. 
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rails. 
( d) Limicolae or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, 
godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plover, sandpipers, snipe, 
stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellow legs. 
( e ) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. 
For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be con¬ 
sidered migratory insectivorous birds: 
(/) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flycatchers, grosbeaks, 
humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadow larks, night hawks or bull 
bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins ; shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, 
titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills, wood¬ 
peckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely 
or chiefly on insects. 
Regulation 2. Closed seasons at night. 
A daily closed season on all migratory game and insectivorous 
birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise. 
Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora and other 
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Regulation 3. Closed season on insectivorous birds. 
A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue to 
December 31, 1913, and each year thereafter shall begin January 1 
and continue to December 31, both dates inclusive, provided that 
nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prevent the issue of 
permits for collecting such birds for scientific purposes in accordance 
with the laws and regulations in force in the respective States and 
Territories and the District of Columbia; and provided further that 
the closed season on reedbirds or ricebirds in Delaware, Maryland, 
the District of Columbia, Virginia, and South Carolina shall begiu 
November 1 and end August 31 next following, both dates inclusive. 
