5,6'-25' r r -sSiiMi " P FL LIB. MTS DEPT. i lt%4f t 5. R. A.— b. sr-23: U.S. DEPOSITORY r\, o / 'll'MO U.S.DEPOSfTC Issued November 30, 1918. United States Department of Agriculture, BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. E. W. Nelson, Chief of Bureau. SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS. AMENDMENTS OF AND ADDITIONS TO THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to the authority contained in section 3 of the migratory-bird treaty act (Public, No. 186 — 65th Cong.), and having due regard to the zones of tempera- ture and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, has determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of said convention to allow hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations has adopted and submitted to me for approval regulations, additional to and amendatory of the regulations approved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be suitable amendatory and additional regulations permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, trans- portation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, which said additions and amendments are as follows : REGULATION 4.- -OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION GAME BIRDS. OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY Regulation 4, subtitle " Black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs," is amended so as to read as follows: Black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs. — 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; 89867°— 18 2 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. [S. R. A., In the District of Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Alaska the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15 ; 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 portion of Oregon and Washington lying east of the summit of the Cascade Mountains 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 summit 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. • REGULATION 5.— BAG LIMITS ON CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS. Kegulation 5 is amended so as to read as follows : A person may take in any one day during the open seasons prescribed there- for in Regulation 4 not to exceed the following numbers of migratory game birds : Ducks (except wood duck and eider ducks). — Twenty-five in the aggregate of all kinds. Geese. — 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. Black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs. — Fifteen in the aggregate of all kinds. Wilson snipe, or jacksnipe. — Twenty-five. Woodcock. — Six. Doves (mourning and white-winged). — Twenty-five in the aggregate of both kinds. REGULATION 6.— SHIPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS. Kegulation 6 is amended so as to read as follows : Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, galli- nules, black-bellied and golden plovers, greater and lesser yellowlegs, wood- cock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning and white-winged 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 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, 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 state- ment of the numbers and kinds of birds contained therein clearly and conspic- uously marked on the outside thereof; but no such birds shall be transported from any State, Territory, or District to or through another State, Territory, B. S. 25] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS. 3 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. REGULATION 8.— PERMITS TO PROPAGATE AND SELL MIGRATORY WATERFOWL. Paragraph 2 of Regulation 8 is amended so as to read as follows : 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 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. REGULATION 9.— PERMITS TO COLLECT MIGRATORY BIRDS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES. Regulation 9 is amended so as to read as follows : 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 t'»e Secretary, which permit shall be carried on his person when he is collecting specimens thereunder and shall be exhibited to any person requesting, to see the same. Application for a permit must be addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and must contain the following information : Name and address of applicant and name of State? Territory, or District in which speci- mens are proposed to be taken and the purpose for which they are intended. Each application shall be accompanied by certificates from two well-known ornithologists that the applicant is a fit person to he entrusted with a permit. The permit will authorize the holder thereof to possess, buy, sell, and trans- port in any manner and at any time migratory birds, parts thereof, and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes. Public museums, zoological parks and societies, and public scientific and educational institutions may possess, buy, sell, 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 be taken without a permit. The plumage and skins of mi- gratory game birds legally taken may be possessed and transported by a person without a permit. A .taxidermist when authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary may possess, buy, sell, and transport in any manner and at any time migratory birds and parts thereof legally taken. 4 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. [S. R. A.— B. S. 25.] Permits shall be valid only during the calendar year of issue, shall not be transferable, and shall be revocable in the discretion of the Secretary. A person holding a permit shall report to the Secretary on or before January 10 following its expiration the number of skins, nests, or eggs of each species col- lected, bought, sold, or transported. Every package in which migratory birds or their nests or eggs are transported 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 statement that it contains specimens of birds, their nests, or eggs for scientific purposes, and, whenever such a package is transported or offered for transportation 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. REGULATION 11.— SALE OF MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS LAWFULLY HELD IN COLD STORAGE JULY 31, 1918. An additional regulation to be known as Regulation 11 shall read as follows: A person authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary may possess and may sell and transport until midnight of March 31, 1919, the carcasses of migratory game birds lawfully killed and by him lawfully held in cold storage on July 31, 1918, 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 until midnight of April 5, 1919. REGULATION 12.— STATE LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS. An additional regulation to be known as Regulation 12 shall read as follows: Nothing in these regulations shall be construed to permit' the taking, pos- session, sale, purchase, or transportation of migratory birds, their nests, and eggs contrary to the laws and regulations of any State, 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. Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory and additional regulations. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia, this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-third. [seal.] Woodrow Wilson. By the President: Robert Lansing, Secretary of State. uwve Rs ne * J "»"■'•■— ■ <-• - WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1918 w 12 62 0921^7857