S. R. A.— B. S. 62. Issued August, 1924. United States Department of Agriculture SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY TEXT OF LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS The full text of the laws and regulations which follow was for- merly published in the annual bulletin of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture on the game laws. Summarized information concerning open seasons on game, licenses, bag limits, possession, sale, interstate transportation, and provisions relating to imported game and game raised in captivity is published in Farmers' Bulletin No. 1444, " Game Laws for the Season 1924-25 : A Summary of the Provisions of Federal, State, and Provincial Statutes." CONVENTION ^E§PWEE}T~TrHE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA x ., ,* 1 [$9 Stat. 1702] ' BY THE PRESIDENT OfItHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Whereas a convention between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the protection of migratory birds in the United States and Canada was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Washington on the 16th day of August, 1916, the original of which convention is word for word as follows : Whereas, many species of birds in the course of their annual mi- grations traverse certain parts of the United States and the Domin- ion of Canada ; and Signed at Washington Aug. 16, 1016; ratification advised by the Senate Aug. 20. rati- fied by the President Sept. 1, and by Great Britain Oct. 20 ; ratifications exchanged Dec. 7; proclaimed Dec. 8, 1016. Constitutionality of the treaty and act of July 3, 1918, sus- tained by the United States Supreme Court in a decision rendered Apr. 1!). 1020, in the case of the State of Missouri v. Ray P. Holland (252 U. S. 416) ; see also U. S. v. Lump- kin (276 Fed. 580). Canada, by an act of Parliament approved Aug. 20, 1017. gave full effect to this con- vention and promulgated regulations thereunder May 11, 101S. The validity of the act of the Dominion Parliament was upheld by the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island in a decision (Michaelmas term, 1020) rendered in the case of The King v. Russell C. Clark. 2292°— 24 1 2 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. Whereas, many of these species are of ^rreat value as a source of food or in destroying insects which are injurious to forests and for- age plants on the public domain, as well as to agricultural crops, in both the United States and Canada, but are nevertheless in danger of extermination through lack of adequate protection during the nesting season or while on their way to and from their breeding grounds ; The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of saving from indiscriminate slaughter and of insuring the preserva- tion of such migratory birds as are either useful to man or harmless, have resolved to adopt some uniform system of protection which shall effectively accomplish such objects and to the end of concluding a convention for this purpose have appointed as their respective pleni- potentiaries : The President of the United States of America, Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States; and His Britannic Majesty, the Right Hon. Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice. G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., etc.. His Majesty's ambassador extraor- dinary and plenipotentiary at Washington; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and adopted the following articles: ARTICLE I The high contracting powers declare that the migratory birds included in the terms of this convention shall he as follows : 1. 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, gallinules and sora and other rails. (d) Limicolae or shorebirds, including avocets. curlew, dowitchers, godwits, 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: Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax-wings, whippoorwills, wood- peckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 3. Other migratory nongame birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shear- waters, and terns. ARTICLE II The high contracting powers agree that, as an effective means of preserving migratory birds there shall be established the following close seasons during which no bunting shall be done except for scientific or propagating purposes under permits issued by proper authorities. 1. The close season on migratory game birds shall be between March 10 ami September 1, except that the close season on the Limicolae or shorebirds in the Maritime Provinces of Canada ami in those States of the United States border- ing on the Atlantic Ocean which are situated wholly or in part north of Chesa- peake Bay shall be between February 1 and August 15, and that Indians may take at any time scoters for food hut not for sale. The season for hunting shall be further restricted to such period not exceeding three and one-half months B. S. 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 3 as the high contracting powers may severally deem appropriate and define by law or regulation. 2. The close season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue throughout the year. 3. The close season on other migratory nongame birds shall continue through- out the year, except that Eskimos and Indians may take at any season auks, auklets, guillemots, murres, and puffins, and their eggs, for food and their skins for clothing, but the birds and eggs so taken shall not be sold or offered for sale. ARTICLE III The high contracting powers agree that during the period of 10 years next following the going into effect of this convention there shall be a continuous close season on the following migratory game birds, to wit: Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, swans, cur- lew, and all shorebirds (except the black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs) ; provided that during such 10 years the close seasons on cranes, swans, and curlew in the Province of British Columbia shall be made by the proper authorities of that Province within the general dates and limitations elsewhere prescribed in this convention for the respective groups to which these birds belong. ARTICLE IV The high contracting powers agree that special protection shall be given the wood duck and the eider duck either (1) by a close season extending over a period of at least 5 years, or (2) by the establishment of refuges, or (3) by such other regulations as may be deemed appropriate. article v The taking of nests or eggs of migratory game or insectivorous or nongame birds shall be prohibited, except for scientific or propagating purposes under such laws or regulations as the high contractino- powers may severally deem appropriate. article VI The high contracting powers agree that the shipment or export of migratory birds or their eggs from any State or Province, during the continuance of the close season in such State or Province, shall be prohibited except for scientific or propagating purposes, and the international traffic in any birds or eggs at such time captured, killed, taken, or shipped at any time contrary to the laws of the State or Province in which the same were captured, killed, taken, or shipped shall be likewise prohibited. Every package containing migratory birds or any parts thereof or any eggs of migratory birds transported, or offered for transportation from the United States into the Dominion of Canada or from the Dominion of Canada into the United States, shall have the name and address of the shipper and an accurate statement of the contents clearly marked on the outside of such package. ARTICLE VII Permits to kill any of the above-named birds which under extraordinary con- ditions may become seriously injurious to the agricultural or other interests in any particular community, may be issued by the proper authorities of the high contracting powers under suitable regulations prescribed therefor by them, respectively, but such permits shall lapse or may be canceled at any time when, in the opinion of said authorities, the particular exigency has passed, and no birds killed under this article shall be shipped, sold, or offered for sale. article vin The high contracting powers agree themselves to take, or propose to their respective appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary measures for insuring the execution of the present convention. BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. ARTICLE IX The present convention shall he ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the convention shall take effect on the date of the ex- change of the ratifications. It shall remain in force for 15 years and in the event of neither of the high contracting powers having given notification 12 months before the expiration of said period of 15 years of its intention of terminating its operation, the convention shall continue to remain in force for 1 year and so on from year to year. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done at Washington this 16th day of August, 1916. [seal.] Robert Lansing, [seal.] Cecil Spring Rice. And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the Tth day of December, 1916: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 8th day of December in the year of our Lord 1916, and of the independence of the United States of America the 141st. [seal.] - Woodrow Wilson. By the President : Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY ACT [Approved July 3, 1918. 40 Stat. 755] An act to give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August 16, 1916, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this act shall be known by the short title of the " Migratory Bird Treaty Act." Sec. 2. That unless and except as permitted by regulations made as herein- after provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for transportation, transport, canst 1 to he transported, carry or cause to be carried by any means whatever, receive Cor shipment, transportation or carriage, or export, at any time or in any manner, any migratory bird, included in the terms of the con- vention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, or any part, nest, or egg of any such bird. SEC. •''>. Thai subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the purposes of the convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, from B. S. 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 5 time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distri- bution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of such birds, to determine when, to what extent, if at all, and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the convention to allow hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, trans- portation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part. nest, or egg thereof, and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in ac- cordance with such determinations, which regulations shall become effective when approved by the President. Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by any means whatever, from one State. Territory, or District to or through another Slate. Territory, or District, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried at any time contrary to the laws of the State. Territory, or District in which it was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, trans- ported, or carried. It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried con- trary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried. Sec 5. That any employee of the Department of Agriculture authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of this act shall have power, without warrant, to arrest any person committing a violation of this act in his presence or view and to take such person immediately for examination or trial before an officer or court of competent jurisdiction ; shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of com- petent jurisdiction for the enforcement of the provisions of this act ; and shall have authority, with a search warrant, to search any place. The several judges of the courts established under the laws of the United States, and United States commissioners may. within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases. All birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed contrary to the provisions of this act or of any regulations made pursuant thereto shall, when found, be seized by any such employee, or by any marshal or deputy marshal, and, upon conviction of the offender or upon judgment of a court of the United States that the same were captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed con- trary to the provisions of this act or of any regulation made pursuant thereto, shall be forfeited to the United States and disposed of as directed by the court having jurisdiction. Sec 6. That any person, association, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of said convention or of this act, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any regulation made pursuant to this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and lipon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than S500 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both. Sec 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the several States and Territories from making or enforcing laws or regulations not in- consistent with the provisions of said convention or of this act. or from making or enforcing laws or regulations which shall give further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs, if such laws or regulations do not ex- tend the open seasons for such birds beyond the dates approved by the President in accordance with section three of this act. Sec 8. That until the adoption and approval, pursuant to section 3 of this act, of regulations dealing with migratory birds and their nests and eggs, such migratory birds and their nests and eggs as are intended and used exclusively for scientific or propagating purposes may be taken, captured, killed, possessed, sold, purchased, shipped, and transported for such scientific or propagating purposes if and to the extent not in conflict with the laws of the State. Terri- tory, or District in which they are taken, captured, killed, possessed, sold, or purchased, or in or from which they are shipped or transported if the packages containing the dead bodies or the nests or eggs of such birds when shipped and transported shall be marked on the outside thereof so as accurately and clearly to show the name and address of the shipper and the contents of the package. Sec 9. That the unexpended balances of any sums appropriated by the agri- cultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918, for enforcing the provisions of the act approved March 4, 1913. relating to the protection of migratory game and insectivorous birds, are hereby reappropriated and made 6 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. available until expended for the expenses of carrying into effect the provisions of this act and regulations made pursuant thereto, including the payment of such rent, and the employment of such persons and means, as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and necessary investigations connected therewith : Provided, That no person who is subject to the draft for service in the Army or Navy shall be exempted or excused from such service by reason of his employment under this act. Sec. 10. That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid. such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. Sec. 11. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the breeding of migratory game birds on farms and preserves and the sale of birds so bred un- der proper regulation for the purpose of increasing the food supply. Sec 13. That this act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval. MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY-ACT REGULATIONS [As approved and promulgated bv the President. Julv 31. 1918. and amended October 25. 1918, Julv 28. 1919, Julv 9. 1920. March 3. 1921. Mav 17. 1921. March 8, 1922, April 10, 1923, June 11, 1923, April 11. 1924, and July 2, 1924.] 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 10. 1916. are as follows: 1. Migratory game birds: (a) Anatida?, or waterfowd. including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. (b) Gruidse, or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. (c) Rallidae, or rails, including coot, gallinules. and sora and other rails. (d) Limicola?, or shorebirds. including avocets. curlews, dowitchers. godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones. willet. woodcock, and yellowlegs. (e) Oolumbidce, or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. 2. Migratory insectivorous birds: Cuckoos : flickers and other woodpeckers; nighthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor Avills : swifts: hummingbirds: flycatch- ers: bobolinks, meadowlarks. and orioles: grosbeaks: tanagers : 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. 8. Other migrator]/ nongame birds: Auks, anklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, sruillemots. gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shear- waters, and terns. [As amended July 9, 1920.1 REGULATION 2.— DEFINITIONS OF TERMS For the purposes of these regulations the following terms shall be construed. respectively, to mean — Secretary. — The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. Person. — The plural or the singular, as the case demands, including Indi- viduals, associations, partnerships, and corporations, unless the context other- wise requires. Tal:e. — 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. 1' ran sport. — Shipping, transporting, carrying, exporting, receiving or deliver- ing for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export. B. S. 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 7 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 gauge, fired from the shoulder, except as specifically permitted by regulations 7, 8, 9, and 10 hereof: they may bo taken during the open season from the hind and water, with the aid of a dog. the use of decoys, and from a blind or floating device (other than an airplane, powerboat, sailboat, any boat under sail, or any floating device towed by powerboat or sailboat). [As amended July 28, 1919, March 3. 1921. and May 17, 1921.] 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 wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gallinules, black-bellied and golden plovers, greater and lesser yellowlegs, woodcock. Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning doves may be taken each day from half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open seasons prescribed therefor in this regulation, by the means and in the numbers permitted by regulations 3 and 5 hereof, respectively, and when so taken may be possessed 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 birds shall be possessed in a State, Territory, or District at a time when such State, Territory, or District prohibits the possession thereof. Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe. — The open seasons for waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe shall be as follows : In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts. Ohio, W T est Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota. Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota. South Dakota. Nebraska. Kansas, Colorado. Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and that portion of Oregon and Washington lying east of the summit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from September 1G to December 31 ; In New York (except Long Island) the open season shall be from September 24 to January 7 ; In Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, that portion of Texas lying west and north of the main tracks of the International & Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview. and the Texas & Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Tex- arkana, New Mexico, Utah, California, and that portion of Oregon and Wash- ington lying west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from October 1 to January 15 ; In that portion of New York known as Long Island, and in New Jersey, Dela- ware, and Arizona the open season shall be from October 1G to January 31 ; In Maryland, the District of Columbia. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee. Arkansas, Louisi- ana, and that portion of Texas lying east and south of the main tracks of the International & Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San An- tonio. Austin, and Longview. and the Texas & Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31 ; and In Alaska the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15. Rails (except coot and gallinules). — The open season for sora and other rails (except coot and gallinules) shall be from September 1 to November 30, except as follows: In Louisiana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31. Black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yelloirlegs. — The open seasons for black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs shall be as follows : In Maine. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York, New .Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia the open season shall be from August 16 to November 30; In the District of Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee. Ar- kansas. Oklahoma, Texas. New Mexico. Arizona, California, and Alaska the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15 ; 8 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. In Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and that por- tion of Oregon and Washington lying east of the summit of the Cascade Moun- tains the open season shall be from September 16 to December 31; In Utah and in that portion of Oregon and Washington lying west of the sum- mit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from October 1 to January 15 ; and In Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31. Woodcock. — The open seasons for woodcock shall be as follows : In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- cut, New Yoik, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas the open season shall be from October 1 to November 30 ; and In Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma the open season shall be from November 1 to December 31. Doves. — The open seasons for mourning doves shall be as follows: In Delaware, Mary hind, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska. Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, that portion of Texas lying west and north of the main tracks of the Inter- national and Great Northern railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview, and the Texas and Pacific railroad extending from Long- view to Marshall and Texarkana, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Cali- fornia, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15; In Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi the open season shall be from October 16 to January 31 ; In that portion of Texas lying east and south of the main tracks of the Inter- national and Great Northern railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview, and the Texas and Pacific railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the open season shall be from November 1 to December 31 ; and In South Carolina and Louisiana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31. [As amended October 25, 1918. July 2S, 1919, July 9, 1920, May 17, 1921, March 8, 1922, June 11, 1923, April 11, 1924, and July 2, 1924.] REGULATION 5.— BAG LIMITS ON CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS A person may take in any one day during the open seasons prescribed therefor in regulation 4 not to exceed the following numbers of migratory game birds, which numbers shall include all birds taken by any other person who for hire accompanies or assists him in taking migratory birds: Ducks (except wood duck and elder ducks). — Twenty-five in the aggregate of all kinds. Oeese. — Eight in the aggregate of all kinds. Brant. — Eight. Rails, coot, and gallinules {except sora). — Twenty-five in the aggregate of all kinds. Sora.— Fifty. Blaek-oellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs. — Fifteen in the aggregate of all kinds. Wilson snipe, or jack snipe. — Twenty-five. Woodcock. — Six. Doves ( mourning). — Twenty-five. [As amended October 25, 1918, July 28, 1919, and Marcli 3, 1921.] REGULATION 6.— SHIPMENT, TRANSPORTATION, AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gallinules, black-bellied and golden plovers, greater and Lesser yellowlegs, woodcock, Wilson Mnipe or jaeksnipe, and mourning doves and parts thereof legally taken may be transported in or out of I bo Stale where taken during the respective open B. S. 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS ( J 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 regulations 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, nor to exceed 5 days, necessary to deliver the same to their destination, and may be possessed 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; 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 con- signee and an accurate statement of the numbers and kinds of birds con- tained therein clearly and conspicuously marked on the outside thereof: hut 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 St:ite. 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 lards he 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, 1018. and July 9, 1920.] REGULATION 7.— TAKING OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY NONGAME BIRDS BY ESKIMOS AND INDIANS IN ALASKA In Alaska Eskimos and Indians may take for the use of themselves 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. REGULATION 8.— PERMITS TO PROPAGATE AND SELL MIGRATORY WATERFOWL 1. A person may take in any manner and at any time migratory water- fowl and their eggs for propagating purposes when authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary. Waterfowl and their eggs so taken may be possessed by the permittee and may be sold and transported by him for propagating purposes 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 waterfowL except the birds taken under paragraph 1 of this regulation, so possessed may be killed by him at any time, in any manner, except that they may be killed by shooting only during the open season for waterfowl in the State where killed, and the 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 board- ing 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 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 he sufficient to identify it as a bird raised in domestication under a permit. 8. Any package in winch such waterfowl or parts thereof or their eggs are transported shall have plainly and cbnspicuously marked on the outside thereof the name and address of the permittee, 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 he 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 he carried on: number of acres of land used in the business and whether owned or lease-! by the appli- 22i Y2 ° 24 -2 10 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. cant; number of each species of waterfowl in possession of applicant; names of species and number of birds or eggs of eacb 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. 5. A person granted a permit under tins regulation shall keep books and records winch shall correctly set forth the total number of each species of waterfowl and their eggs possessed on the date of application for the permit and on the 1st day of each .January next following; also for each calendar year during the life of the permit the total number of each species reared and killed, number of each species and their eggs sold and transported, manner in which such waterfowl and eggs were transported, name and address of each person from or to whom waterfowl and eggs were purchased or sold, together with number and species and whether sold alive or dead; and the date of each transaction. A report setting forth this information shall be annually furnished the Secretary during the month of January for the preceding calendar year. 6. A permittee shall at all reasonable hours allow any authorized employee of the United States Department of Agriculture to enter and inspect the premises where operations are being carried on under this regulation and to inspect the books and records of such permittee relating thereto. 7. A permit issued under this regulation shall be valid until revoked by the Secretary unless otherwise specified therein, shall not be transferable, and may be revoked by the Secretary, if the permittee violates any of the provisions of the migratory bird treaty act or of the regulations thereunder. A permit duly revoked by the Secretary shall be surrendered to him by the person to whom it was issued, on demand of any employee of the United States De- partment of Agriculture duly authorized to enforce the provisions of - the migratory bird treaty act. 8. A person may possess and transport for his own use, without a permit, live migratory waterfowl now lawfully possessed or hereafter lawfully ac- quired by him. but he may not purchase or sell such waterfowl without a permit. A State or municipal game farm or city park may possess, purchase, sell, and transport live migratory waterfowl without a permit, but no such waterfowl shall be purchased from or sold to a person (other than such State or municipal game farm or city park) unless he lias a permit. The feathers of wild ducks and wild geese lawfully killed 'and feathers of such birds seized and condemned by Federal or State game authorities may be possessed, bought, sold, and transported, for use in making fishing dies, bed pillows, and mattresses, and for similar commercial purposes, but not for millinery or ornamental purposes. [As amended October 25, 1918, July 9, 1920, April 10, l!ti , : > >, grid June 11, 1923.] REGULATION 9.— PERMITS TO COLLECT MIGRATORY BIRDS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES A person may take in any manner and at any time migratory birds and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes when authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary, which permit shall be carried on his person when he is collecting specimens thereunder and shall be exhibited to any person re- questing to see the same. Application for a permit must he addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and must contain the following information: Name and address of applicant, his age, and name of State. Territory, or District in which specimens are proposed to be taken," and the purpose for winch they are intended. Each" application shall be accompanied by certificates from two well-known ornithologists that the applicant is a fit person to he intrusted with a permit. The permit may limit the number and species of birds, birds' nests or eggs that may he collected thereunder, and may authorize the holder thereof to possess, buy. sell, exchange, and transport in any manner and at any time migratory birds, parts thereof, and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes; or it may limit the holder to one or more of these privileges. Public museums, zoological parks and societies, and public scientific and educational institu- tions may possess, buy, sell, exchange 1 , and transport in any manner and at any time migratory birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes without a permit, but no specimens shall he taken without a permit. The plumage and skins of migratory game birds legally taken may be possessed and transported by a person without a permit. B. S. 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 11 A taxidermist, when authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary, may possess, buy, sell, exchange, and transport in any manner and at any time migratory birds and parts thereof legally taken, or he may be limited to one or more of these privileges. Each permit shall be valid until revoked by the Secretary unless otherwise specified therein, shall not be transferable, and shall be revocable at the discretion of the Secretary. A permit duly revoked by the Secretary shall be surrendered to him by the person to whom it was issued, on demand of any employee of the United St;ites Department of Agriculture duly authorized to enforce the provisions of the migratory bird treaty act. A person holding a permit shall report annually to the Secretary on or before the 10th day of January during the life of the permit the number of skins, nests, or eggs of each species collected, bought, sold, exchanged, or transported during the preceding calendar year. Every package in which migratory birds or their nests or eggs are trans- ported shall have clearly and conspicuously marked on the outside thereof the name and address of the sender, the number of the permit in every case when a permit is required, the name and address of the consignee, a state- ment that it contains specimens of birds, their nests, or eggs for scientific purposes, and, whenever such a package is transported or offered for trans- portation from the Dominion of Canada into the United States or from the United States into the Dominion of Canada, an accurate statement of the contents. [As amended October 25, 1018, March 3, 1921, and June 11, 1923.] REGULATION 10.— PERMITS TO KILL MIGRATORY BIRDS INJURIOUS TO PROPERTY "When information is furnished the Secretary that any species of migratory bird has become under extraordinary conditions, seriously injurious to agricul- ture or other interests in any particular community, an investigation will be made to determine the nature and extent of the injury, whether the birds alleged to be doing the damage should be killed, and if so. during what times and by what means. Upon his determination an appropriate order will be made. REGULATION 11.— STATE LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS Nothing in these regulations shall be construed to permit the taking, posses- sion, sale, purchase, or transportation of migratory birds, their nesrs. and eggs contrary to the laws and regulations of any State, or Territory, or District made for the purpose of giving further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs when such laws and regulations are not inconsistent with the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916. or the migratory bird treaty act and do not extend the open seasons for such birds beyond the dates prescribed by these regulations. [Added by proclamation of October 25. 1918, as amended July 0. 1020.] ORDER PERMITTING THE KILLING OF BOBOLINKS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS REEDBIRDS OR RICE BIRDS. WHICH HAVE BECOME SERIOUSLY INJURIOUS TO AGRICUL- TURAL INTERESTS [Issued January 17, 1010] Information having been furnished the Secretary of Agriculture that bobo- links, commonly known as reedbirds or rice birds, have heroine seriously in- jurious to the rice crops of North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and an investigation having been duly and regularly made pursuant to law, and it having been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture that said birds have become, under extraordinary conditions, seriously injurious to the rice crops in said States and that the injuries so indicted by them can not adequately be controlled in the communities immediately affected, and that they should therefore be killed in the manner, during the seasons, and in the States and District hereinafter provided, 12 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. Now. therefore. I, D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to au- thority in me vested by the migratory bird treaty act of July 3, 1918. and in conformity with regulation 10 of the migratory bird treaty act regulations ap- proved and proclaimed July 31, 1918. do order that until further notice per- sons may kill by shooting, bobolinks, commonly known as reedbirds or rice birds, from half an hour before sunrise to sunset, from September 1 to October 30, inclusive, in the States of Xew Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware and Mary- land and the District of Columbia, and from August 10 to November 15. inclu- sive, in the States of Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, but the birds so killed shall not be sold, offered for sale, or shipped for purposes of sale, or be wantonly wasted or destroyed, but they may be used for food purposes by the persons killing them, and they may be transported to hospitals and charitable institutions for us.* as food. D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture. LACEY ACT, REGULATING INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN GAME Federal laws affecting the shipment of game comprise statutes regulating interstate commerce in game and the importation of birds and mammals from foreign countries, as follows: CRIMINAL CODE— ACT OF MARCH 4, 1909 [35 Stat. 1137] Sec. 241. The importation into the United States, or any Territory or District thereof, of the mongoose, the so-called " flying foxes," or fruit bats, the English sparrow, the starling, and such other birds and animals as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time declare to be injurious to the interests of agriculture or horticulture, is hereby prohibited ; and all such birds and ani- mals shall, upon arrival at any port of the United States, be destroyed or returned at the expense of the owner. No person shall import into the United States or into any Territory or District thereof any foreign wild animal or bird, except under special permit from the Secretary of Agriculture : Provided, That nothing in this section shall restrict the importation of natural-history speci- mens for museums or scientific collections, or of certain cage birds, such as domesticated canaries, parrots, or such, other birds as the Secretary of Agri- culture may designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section. Sec 242. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common carrier for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any State, Territory, or District of the United States to any other State, Territory, or District thereof, any foreign animals or birds the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds. 2 where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws of the State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed, or from which they were shipped: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited by law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or killed: Provided further, That nothing herein shall prevent the importation, trans- portation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers Of barnyard fowls. Sec. 24:*. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped in inter- state or foreign commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and address of the shipper and the nature of the contents may be readily ascertained on an inspection of the outside of such package. Sec. 244. For each evasion or violation of any provision of the three sections last preceding, the shipper shall be fined not more than $200; the consignee knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in violation of 2 Se<> sec. i of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, p. 5, which supersedes this pari of the Lacey .\f which is prohibited as above, were imported into the United States prior to October 3, 1913, or were plucked in the United States from birds Lawfully therein. That whenever birds or plumage, the importation of which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, are forfeited to the Government, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to place the same with the departments or bureaus of the Federal or state Governments or societies or museums for exhibition or scientific or educational purposes, but not for sale or personal nse: and in the event of such birds or plumage not being required or desired by either Federal or state Government or for educational purposes. they shall he dost roved. Thin nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913, chapter 145 (37 Statutes at Large, page S47). or the act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stutnlos at Large, page Too), or any other law of the United B. S. 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRpS 15 States, now of force, intended for the protection or preservation of birds within the United states. That if on investigation by the collector before seizure, or before trial for forfeiture, or if al such trial if such seizure has been made, it shall be made to appear to the collector, or the prosecuting officer of the Government, as the case may be, that no illegal importation of such feathers has been made, but thai the possession, acquisition, or purchase of such feathers is or has been made in violation of the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913, chapter 145 (37 Statutes at Larue, page 847), or the acl of July 3, 1018 (40 Statutes at Larue, page Too), or any other law of the Dnited States, now of force, intended for the protection or preservation of birds within the United States, it shall be the duty of the collector, or such prosecuting officer, as the case may be. to report the facts to the proper officials of the United States, or State or Territory charged with the duty of enforcing such laws. Import duties and provisions are as follows: Par. 704. A duty of 4 cents per pound is imposed on reindeer meat, venison, and other pime (except birds). Par. 711. The duty on live birds (except poultry) is 50 cents each on those valued at $5 or less, and 20 per cent ad valorem on those valued at more than $5. Par. 712. Dressed or undressed birds (except poultry) are dutiable at S cents per pound, but if prepared or preserved in any manner the duty is 35 per cent ad valorem. (Paragraph 1419 prohibits the importation of the plumage of wild birds, so that undressed game birds may only be brought in under a bond for the destruction of their plumage.) Par. 715. Live wild animals, 15 per cent ad valorem. Par. 1420. Silver or black fox skins, dressed or undressed, and manufactures thereof, 50 per cent ad valorem; other furs dressed on the skin, not advanced further than dyeing, 25 per cent ad valorem. Par. 1569. The eggs of birds are prohibited from entry, except that eggs of game birds may be imported free under regulations of Secretary of Agriculture for propagating purposes; specimens may also be imported free for scientific collections. Par. 1579. Paw furs and fur skins (except silver or black fox skins), un- dressed, are admitted free. Par. 1668. Natural history specimens (including wild birds and mammals) may be imported free for scientific public collections, but not for sale. CANADIAN REGULATIONS UNDER MIGRATORY-BIRDS CONVENTION ACT irromulsated May 11, 1918; amended May 11. 1920; August .31. 1921; Soptember 1, 1922; August 13 and 2.",. 1923; and July 26, 1924] 1. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: {a) "Migratory game birds" means the following: Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild duck, geese, and swans; Gruidre or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes; Rallida? or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora, and other rails; Limieola? or shorebirds, including avocets. curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster-catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turn- stones, willet. woodcock, and yellowlegs ; Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. (b) " Migratory insectivorous birds" means the following: Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, fly-catchers, grosbeaks, hum- ming-birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks. nighthawks or bull bats, nut- hatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects; e ember 31, both dates inclusive. In Yarmouth and Shelburne Counties, in the Province of Nova Scotia : October 15 to January 31, both dates inclusive. (',< < se and brant : In British Columbia (in that portion of the western district to the south of the 53d parallel of latitude) : From the first Saturday next following November 7 in any year to a date 3 months and 15 days later, both dates inclusive. In Nova Scotia, except Shelburne and Queens Counties: September 15 to December 31. both dates inclusive. In Shelburne and Queens Counties, in the Province of Nova Scotia, to persons holding a license from the minister: November 1 to February 14, both dates inclusive. Shorebij'ds or waders, including only the following: ~\Yoodcoch\ Wilson or jack snipe, black-bellied and r eggs were pur- chased or sold, together with number and species and whei gr sold alive or dead, and the date of such transaction. (d) Applications for permits to take such birds for propagating purposes shall be accompanied by a statement showing — (1) The full name and post-office address of the applicant. (2) The species of birds or eggs that it is desired to take. (3) The number. (4) The place at which the birds or eggs are to be taken. Applications for permits to possess, buy, sell, or transport such birds for pro- pagating purposes shall be accompanied by a statement showing — (1) The full name and post-office address of the applicant. (2) The species and number of birds that it is desired to possess. (3) The area and location of the land to be used in th^ business and whether owned or leased by the applicant. (e) The minister may require an applicant to furnish a bond in support of his application for a permit for propagating purposes. (f) A permittee shall at all reasonable hours allow any game officer to enter and inspect the premises where operations are being carried on under these regulations and to inspect the books and records of such permittee re- lating thereto. 20 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY fS. R. A. (g) No person holding a permit for propagating purposes shall sell migra- tory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame birds, raised and killed in captivity, unless the same shall bear a metal tag. This tag shall be of a type approved by the minister and shall contain the name or initials of the holder of the permit. It shall not he removed from the carcass. 13. Termination of permits. — All permits and licenses shall terminate at the end of the calendar year in which they shall have been issued. They shall not be transferable and shall be revocable at the discretion of the minister. 14. Taxidermists. — No person shall engage in the business of a taxidermist without having first secured from the minister a license so to do. The fee for this license shall be $1. No taxidermist shall receive, prepare for exhibition purposes, or possess, any migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame bird, or any portion thereof, unless such bird has been legally killed, either in the open season for such birds or by the holder of a permit for taking birds for scientific purposes. Every licensed taxidermist shall annually make such returns as the min- ister may require. Every licensed taxidermist shall keep books and records which correctly set forth the name of each migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame bird received, the date and locality of capture, the date received, and the name and address of the owner of such bird. These books and records are to be open to inspection by any game officer at any reasonable time. 15. Labeling packages for shipment. — Any package in which migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame birds or parts thereof, or their eggs or nests are shipped or transported for scientific or propagating purposes shall be clearly marked on the outside with the number of the permit, the name and address of the shipper, and an accurate statement of the contents. No transportation company shall accept for transportation any package con- taining migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame birds, or their nests or eggs or parts thereof, unless such packages shall be marked as hereinbefore required, and shipment of the same through the mails is pro- hibited unless marked as aforesaid. 16. The shipment or export of migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame birds, or their nests or eggs from any Province during the close season in such Provinces is prohibited, except for scientific or propagat- ing purposes ; and traffic between Canada and the United States in any such birds, or their eggs, captured, killed, taken, or shipped at any time contrary to the laws of the Province or State in which the same are captured, killed, taken, or shipped is likewise prohibited. 17. No person shall ship or offer for shipment from Canada to the United States any package containing migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame birds or any parts thereof or their eggs unless such pack- age shall have the- name and address of the shipper and an accurate statement of the contents pfearly marked on the outside of such package. No transportation company shall accept for transportation to the United States any packages of migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory nongame birds, or any parts thereof or their eggs, unless such packages bear the name and address of the shipper and an accurate statement of the con- tents; and shipment of the same through the mails is prohibited unless marked as aforesaid. 18. If any of the migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory non- game birds should under extraordinary conditions become seriously injurious to agricultural, fishing, or other interests in any particular locality, the minister may issue permits to kill such birds so long as they shall continue to be injurious. Applications for such permits shall include a full statement de- scribing — (1) The species and an estimate of the numbers of birds committing the damage (2) The nature and extent of the damage. (3) The extent of the agricultural or other Interests threatened or involved. Such permits shall be revocable at the discretion of the minister. On the expiration of the permit the person to whom it is issued shall furnish to the minister a written report showing the number of birds killed, tin 1 dates upon which they were killed, and the disposition made of the dead birds. No birds killed under such permits shall be shipped, sold, or offered U)V sale. B g 62] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 21 18a. Any British subject domiciled in the Province of Quebec may capture by trapping or kill by shooting American and red-breasted mergansers within the counties of Rimouski, Matane, Matapedia, Bonaventure, and Gaspe, Province of Quebec, on the south shore of the River St. Lawrence, and within the county of Saguenay, Province of Quebec, on the north shore of the Gulf and River St. Lawrence from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset, from April 1 to August 31, both dates inclusive ; provided, that the birds so killed shall not be sold or offered for sale or shipped or transported from one person to another, except that they may be shipped or transported as a gift to persons authorized by permits granted by virtue of clause 11 of these regulations to take or possess such birds for scientific purposes. 18o. Any superintendents of fish hatcheries situated in the Province of Quebec, any salaried Provincial or Federal game officer duly appointed for that Prov- ince, or any owner or any lessee of fishing areas in that Province, the bona fide employees of such owners or lessees, and the members of fishing clubs which lease fishing rights, may kill loons by shooting, within the Province of Quebec from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset, from April 1 to October 31, both dates inclusive; provided, that the birds so killed shall not be sold or offered for sale or shipped or transported from one person to another, ex- cept that they may be shipped or transported as a gift to persons authorized by permits granted by virtue of clause 11 of these regulations to take or possess such birds for scientific purposes. 18c. Any British subject domiciled in the county of Saguenay, Province of Quebec, may kill great black-backed gulls by shooting, within the county of Saguenay, Province of Quebec, from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset, from June 15 to October 31, both dates inclusive ; provided, that the birds so killed shall not be sold or offered for sale or shipped or transported from one person to another, except that they may be shipped or transported as a gift to persons authorized by permits granted by virtue of clause 11 of these regulations to take or possess such birds for scientific purposes. 18(7. The minister may on any date between August 15 and September 14, in- clusive, issue a general permit, covering any one or more of the Provinces of Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, which shall allow any owner or occu- pier of land in the Province named, having a cereal crop growing or in stock on his said land, to shoot on such land wild ducks which are found causing serious injury to such crop : Provided, That wild ducks so killed shall not be sold or offered for sale, and that wild ducks shall not be shot at or killed outside of the area on which the crop is being so seriously injured. 19. No person or organization shall introduce for the purpose of sport or acclimatization any species of migratory birds without the consent of the minis- ter in writing. 20. No person shall destroy, deface, tear down, or damage maliciously, any posters, notice boards, or signs erected to acquaint the public with any pro- visions of the Migratory Birds Convention Act or Regulations thereunder. CANADIAN TARIFF ACT PROHIBITING IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE, MONGOOSES, AND CERTAIN BIRDS The importation of bird plumage into Canada for millinery pur- poses is prohibited by tariff item 1212 under Schedule C (prohibited goods), as added by section 5 of the Canadian customs tariff act of 1914. Item 1212 prohibits the entry of the following: 1212. Aigrettes, egret plumes, or so-called osprey plumes, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of skins of wild birds either raw or manufactured ; but this provision shall not come into effect until January 1, 1915, and shall not apply to — (a) The feathers or plumes of ostriches; (b) The plumage of the English pheasant and the Indian peacock; (c) The plumage of wild birds ordinarily used as articles of diet; (d) The plumage of birds imported alive; nor to (e) Specimens imported under regulations of the minister of customs for any natural-history or other museum or for educational purposes. 22 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY IS. R. A. Item 1214 under Schedule C (prohibited goods), as added by the customs tariff act, effective May 24, 1922, prohibits the entry of the following : 1214. (a) Common mongoose {Herpcstes griseus) or mongoose of any kind; (b) Common mynah, rhinese mynah, crested mynah, or any other species of the starling family (Sturnidse) ; (c) Java sparrows, rioe bird, nutmeg finch, or other species of the weaver bird family (Ploceidse) ; (d) European chaffinch {FringiUa coelebs) ; (e) Great titmouse (Parus major). WASHINGTON : GOYKKNMKNT PRINTING OFFICE ! 1924 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 3 1262 09218 5122