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 b. E. A. — B. S. 29. Issued August 14, 1919. 
 
 United States Department of Agriculture, 
 
 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
 E. W. Nelson, Chtef of Bureau. 
 
 SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
 
 AMENDMENTS 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 three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 
 Stat., 755), has submitted to me for approval Regulations, amenda- 
 tory of the Regulations approved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, 
 which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be suitable 
 amendatory Regulations permitting and governing the hunting, tak- 
 ing, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transporta- 
 tion, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their 
 nests and eggs, which said amendments are as follows : 
 
 REGULATION 3.— MEANS BY WHICH MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS MAY BE TAKEN. 
 
 Regulation 3 is amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 The migratory game birds specified in Regulation 4 hereof may be taken 
 during the open season with a gun only, not larger than number 10 gauge, fired 
 from the shoulder, except as specifically permitted by Regulations 7, 8, 9, and 
 10 hereof: they may be taken during the open season from the land and water, 
 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), 
 with the aid of a dog, and the use of decoys. 
 
 REGULATION 4.— OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY 
 
 GAME BIRDS. 
 
 Regulation 4, subtitle " Doves ", is amended so as to read as 
 follows : 
 
 Doves. — The open seasons for mourning doves shall be as follows : 
 In Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, 
 Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas. Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas. New Mexico, 
 Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada. Idaho, and Oregon the open 
 
 season shall be from September 1 to December 15 ; 
 
 In North Carolina. Mississippi, and Louisiana the open, sea^bir^hit^-be from 
 September 16 to December 31 ; and . noa. lMENT^-PEPr . 
 
 In South Carolina, Gi irgia, Florida, and Alabama the open season, shall 
 from October 16 to January 31. 
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 REGULATION 5.— BAG LIMITS ON CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS. 
 
 Regulation 5 is amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 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 : 
 
 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. 
 
 Mails, coot, and gallinules (except sora). — Twenty-five in the aggregate of 
 all kinds. 
 
 Sora.— Fifty. 
 
 Black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellow-legs. — Fifteen 
 in the aggregate of all kinds. 
 
 Wilson snipe, or jacksnipe. — Twenty-five. 
 
 Woodcock. — Six. 
 
 Doves ( mourning ) . — Twenty-five. 
 
 Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United 
 States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing 
 amendatory 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 28th day of July, in the 
 year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Nineteen and 
 of the Independence of the United States of America the One 
 Hundred and Forty-Fourth. 
 
 [seal.] Woodrow Wilson. 
 
 By the President: 
 
 Robert Lansing, 
 
 Secretary of /State. 
 
 WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1919