S. R. A.— B. S. 65 Issued April 22, 192(5 
 
 United States Department of Agriculture 
 
 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
 
 SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
 
 TEXT OF FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING 
 TO GAME AND BIRDS 
 
 The full text of the laws and regulations which follow was pub- 
 lished prior to 1924 in the annual bulletin of the United States 
 Department of Agriculture on the game laws. Summarized infor- 
 mation concerning open seasons on game, licenses, bag limits, pos- 
 session, sale, interstate transportation, and provisions relating to 
 imported game and game raised in captivity is published annually 
 in the bulletin above mentioned. 
 
 CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRIT- 
 AIN FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS IN THE 
 UNITED STATES AND CANADA 1 
 
 [39 Stat. 1702] 
 
 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
 
 A PROCLAMATION 
 
 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, 191G, 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 
 
 1 Signed at Washington Aug. 16, 1916 ; 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, 1916. Constitutionality of the treaty and act of July 3, 1918, sus- 
 tained bv the United States Supreme Court in a decision rendered Apr. 19. 1920, in the 
 case of the State of Missouri r. Ray P. Holland (252 U. S. 416) ; see also D. S. V- 
 Lumpkin (276 Fed. 580). 
 
 Canada, by an act of Parliament approved Aug. 29, 1917, gave full effect to this con- 
 vention and promulgated regulations thereunder May 11. 1918. The validity of the act 
 of the Dominion Parliament was upheld bv the Supreme Ccuii^-©f-Trince Edward Island in 
 a decision (Michaelmas term, 1920) rendered 1h the ea*e of The King v. Russell C. Clark. 
 For full text of the Canadian migratory-bird IreaTy act and regulations, communicate with 
 the Commissioner of Canadian National Parks. urt.-twa. Ontario. I 
 
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2 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
 
 Whereas, many of these species are of great 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 ex- 
 traordinary 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 *o and adopted the following articles: 
 
 ARTICLE I 
 
 The high contracting powers declare that the migratory birds included in the 
 verms of this convention shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Migratory game birds: 
 
 (a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. ' 
 <6) 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. 
 
 (c) 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. Oilier 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 hunting 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 and 
 September 1, except that the close season on the Limicolae or shorebirds in the 
 Maritime Provinces of Canada and 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 but not for sale. The season for hunting 
 shall be further restricted to such period not exceeding three and one-half 
 
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 months 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 through- 
 out the year. 
 
 3. The close season on other migratory npngame 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 contracting 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 
 conditions 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 VIII 
 
 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. 
 
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 ARTICLE IX 
 
 The present convention shall be 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 exchange 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 
 ]2 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 7th 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 assenibled, That this aci 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 hum. 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, cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried by any means 
 Whatever, receive for 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 Tinted states and Great Britain for the protection of 
 migratory birds concluded August 10, 191G, or any part, nest, or egg of any 
 such bird'. 
 
 Sec. 3. That subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the purposes 
 of the convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, from 
 time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distri- 
 
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 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 moans 
 whatever, from one State, Territory, or District to or through another State, 
 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 upon conviction thereof shall be fined 
 not more than $500 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 Presi- 
 dent 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 
 available until expended for the expenses of carrying into effect the provisions 
 
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 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 by the President, July 31, 1918, and amended October 25, 
 1918, July 28, 1919, July 9, 1920, March 3, 1921. May 17. 1921. March 8, 1922. April 
 10, 1923, June 11, 1923, April 11, 1924, July 2, 1924, June 22, 1925, March 8. 1926, and 
 April 22, 1926.] 
 
 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 16, 1916, are as follows : 
 
 1. Migratory game birds: 
 
 (a) Anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 
 (&) 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, curlews, 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. Migratorg insectivorous birds: Cuckoos; flickers and other woodpeckers; 
 nighthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor-wills; 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. 
 
 .",. Other migratori/ nongame birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, 
 grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres. petrels, puffins, shear- 
 waters, and terns. 
 
 [As amended July 9, 1920.] 
 
 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 t be case demands, including indi- 
 viduals, associations, partnerships, and corporations, unless the context other- 
 wise requires. 
 
 Take. The pursuit, hunting, capture, or killing of migratory birds in the 
 manner and by Hie means Specifically permitted. 
 
 Open season. The time during which migratory birds may be taken. 
 
 Transport. Shipping, transporting, carrying, exporting, receiving or deliver- 
 ing for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export. 
 
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 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 be taken during the open season from the land 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, gal- 
 linules, greater and lesser yellowlegs. woodcock. Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, 
 and mourning doves may be taken each day from half an hour before sun- 
 rise 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 sea- 
 son, 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 sivans), 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 (except in Nantucket 
 and Dukes Counties), Ohio. West Virginia. Michigan. Wisconsin. Minnesota, 
 Iowa, Missouri. North Dakota. South Dakota. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado. 
 Wyoming. Montana, and Nevada the open season shall be from September 16 to 
 December 31 : 
 
 In New York (except Long Island) the open season shall be from Septem- 
 ber 24 to January 7 ; 
 
 In that portion of Massachusetts known as Nantucket and Dukes Counties, 
 and in Rhode Island. Connecticut. Pennsylvania. Illinois. Indiana. Oklahoma, 
 Utah. California. Idaho. Oregon, and Washington 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, 
 Delaware. New Mexico. Arizona, and that portion of Texas lying west and 
 north of the main tracks of the International & Great Northern Railroad ex- 
 tending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview. and the Texas & 
 Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the 
 open season shall be from October 16 to January 31 : 
 
 In Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee. North 
 Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida. Alabama. Mississippi, Arkansas. 
 Louisiana, 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 seasoil 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. 
 
 Greater and lesser yellowlegs. — The open seasons for greater and lesser yel- 
 lowlegs 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. 
 Arkansas. Oklahoma. Texas. New Mexico. Arizona, California, and Alaska 
 the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15 : 
 
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 In Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michi- 
 gan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South 
 Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming. Montana, Nevada, and that 
 portion of Washington lying east of the summit of the Cascade Mountains 
 the open season shall be from September 16 to December 31 ; 
 
 In Utah. Oregon, Idaho, and in that portion of 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 
 ^hall be from November 1 to January 31. 
 
 WoodGOck. — The open seasons for woodcock shall be as follows : 
 
 In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- 
 necticut. New York. New T 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 Dele ware, Maryland, 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 & Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, 
 Austin, and Longview, and the Texas & 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 South Carolina, 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 
 International & Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San 
 Antonio. Austin, and Longview, and the Texas & Pacific Railroad extending 
 from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the open season shall be from 
 November 1 to December 31: and 
 
 In Louisiana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31. 
 
 [As amended October 25. 1918, July 28. 1919, July 9, 1920, May 17, 1921, March 8, 
 1922. June 11, 1923. April 11, 1924. July 2, 1924. June 22, 1925, March 8, 1926, and 
 April 22, 1926. 
 
 REGULATION 5.— BAG LIMITS ON CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS 
 
 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, which numbers shall include all birds taken by any other person who 
 for hire accompanies or assists him in taking migratory birds : 
 
 Duel's (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 and aallmules (except sora and eoot). — Twenty-five in the aggregate 
 of all kind-, but not more than 15 of any one species. 
 
 Sora. — Twenty-five. 
 
 ( not. — Twenty-five. 
 
 r,r<>at<r and lesser M/ellowleff 8. — Fifteen in the aggregate of both kinds. 
 
 Wilson snipe or jaefesnipe. — Twenty. 
 
 Woodcock, — Six. 
 
 Doves ( mourning) . — Twenty-five. 
 
 amended October 25, 1918, July 28, 1919, March 8, 1921. and March 8. 1920.1 
 
 REGULATION 6.— SHIPMENT, TRANSPORTATION. AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN 
 
 MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS 
 
 Waterfowl (excepl wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gal- 
 linules, greater and lesser yellowlegs, woodcock. Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, 
 and mourning 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 
 
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 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 trans- 
 ported 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 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 consignee and an accurate state- 
 ment of the numbers and kinds of birds contained therein clearly and con- 
 spicuously marked on the outside thereof: but no such birds shall be trans- 
 ported 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, July 9, 1920, and March 8, 1926.] 
 
 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. 
 
 BEGULATION 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 water- 
 fowl, 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 beads 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 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 it as a bird raised in domestication under a 
 permit. 
 
 3. Any package in which such 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 permittee, the number of his permit. 
 the name and address of the consignee, and an accurate statement of ;he 
 number and kinds of birds or egz* 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 appli- 
 cant ; 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 
 
10 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
 
 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 this regulation shall keep books and 
 records which 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 the 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 cal- 
 endar 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 has 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 flies, bed pillows, 
 and mattresses, and for similar commercial purposes, but not for millinery or 
 ornamental purposes. 
 
 [As amended October 2G, 1918, July 0. 1920, April 10. 1923. and June 11, 1923.] 
 
 REGULATION 9.— PERMITS TO COLLECT MIGRATORY RIRDS FOR SCIENTIFIC 
 
 PURPOSES 
 
 A person may take in any manner and at any time migratory birds and 
 their nests and eggi< 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 be 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 which they 
 arc intended. Each application shall be accompanied by certificates from two 
 well -known ornithologists that the applicant is a fit person to be intrusted 
 with a permit. 
 
 The permit may limit the number and species of birds, birds' nests or c^s 
 that may be 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, 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 migratory 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, exchange, and transport in any manner and at any time 
 
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 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 dis- 
 cretion 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 States 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 eg^gs 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, 1918, 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 nests, 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 9, 1920.] 
 
 ORDER 
 
 PERMITTING THE KILLING OF BOBOLINKS, COMMONLY KNOWN AS REEDBIRDS OR 
 RICE BIRDS, WHICH HAVE BECOME SERIOUSLY INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURAL 
 INTERESTS 
 
 [Issued May 7, 1925] 
 
 Information having been furnished the Secretary of Agriculture that bobo- 
 links, commonly known as reedbirds or rice birds, have become 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 inflicted 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. 
 
 Now. therefore, I. R. W. Dunlap, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant 
 to authority in me vested by the migratory-bird treaty act of July 3. 1918. and 
 3n conformity with regulation 10 of the migratory-bird treaty act regulations 
 
12 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
 
 approved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, do order that until further notice 
 persons may kill hy shooting, bobolinks, commonly known as reedbirds or rice 
 birds, from half an hour before sunrise to sunset, from September 1 to October 
 31, inclusive, in the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and the 
 District of Columbia, and from August 16 to November 15, inclusive, 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 use as food. 
 
 The order of January 17, 1919, permitting the killing of bobolinks is hereby 
 revoked. 
 
 R. W. Dunlap, Acting 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 tho dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds,' 
 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 tho State, Territory, or District in which the same :ire captured or killed: 
 Provided further. That nothing herein shall prevent the importation, trans- 
 portation, or Bale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers 
 of barnyard fowls. 
 
 Sfc 243. 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 
 said sections shall be fined not more than $200: and the carrier knowingly 
 
 1 See sit. 4 of tlic migratory-bird treaty act. p. r>. which supersedes this part of the 
 I.acey Act relative to llio Interstate transportation of wild birds. 
 
B. S. 65] [A US RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 13 
 
 carrying or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall be fined 
 not more than $200. 
 
 SECTIONS 1 AND 5— ACT OF MAY 25, 1900 
 
 [31 Stat. 187-188] 
 
 That the duties and powers of the Department of Agriculture are hereby 
 enlarged so as to include the preservation, distribution, introduction, and 
 restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture 
 is hereby authorized to adopt such measures as may be necessary to carry out 
 the purposes of this act and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds 
 as may be required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various 
 States and Territories. The object and purpose of this act is to aid in the 
 restoration of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto 
 where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the intro- 
 duction of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where they have 
 not heretofore existed. 
 
 The Secretary of Agriculture shall from time to time collect and publish 
 useful information as to the propagation, uses, and preservation of such birds. 
 
 And the Secretary of Agriculture shall make and publish all needful rules 
 and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act, and shall expend 
 for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate therefor. 
 
 Sec. 5. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign game animals, 
 or game or song birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead 
 bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild game animals, or game or song birds 
 transported into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consump- 
 tion, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be 
 subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory 
 enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same 
 manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or 
 Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced 
 therein in original packages or otherwise. This act shall not prevent the im- 
 portation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from 
 the feathers of barnyard fowl. 
 
 LAW PROTECTING WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS 
 ON FEDERAL REFUGES 
 
 ACT OF MARCH 4, 1909, AS AMENDED APRIL 15, 1924 
 
 [43 Stat. 98] 
 
 Sec 84. Whoever shall hunt. trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird 
 or wild animal of any kind whatever, or take or destroy the eggs of any such 
 bird on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or reserved 
 as refuges or breeding grounds for such birds or animals by any law, procla- 
 mation, or Executive order, except under such rules and regulations as the 
 Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, prescribe, or who shall will- 
 fully injure, molest, or destroy any property of the United States on any such 
 lands shall be fined not more than $.100. or imprisoned not more than six 
 months, or both. 
 
 HUNTING ON NATIONAL FORESTS 
 
 Regulation T-7, effective October 1, 1919, of the Regulations of 
 the Forest Service Relative to National Forests, provides as follows: 
 
 The following acts are prohibited on lands of the United States within 
 national forests : 
 
 The going or being upon any such land, or in or on the waters thereof, with 
 intent to hunt, catch, trap, willfully disturb, or kill any kind of game animal, 
 
 3 Sees. 2, 3, and 4 superseded by sees. 241-244 of the Criminal Code, act of Mar. 4. 1909 
 (35 Stat. 1137). 
 
14 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SUUVKV [S. R. A. 
 
 game or nongame bird, or fisli, or to take the eggs of any such bird, in violation 
 of the laws of the State in which such land or waters are situated. 
 
 Regulation G-30 authorizes all forest officers to enforce the above 
 regulation and also to cooperate with State or Territorial officials in 
 the enforcement of local laws for the protection of birds, fish, and 
 game. 
 
 PROVISIONS OF TARIFF ACT REGULATING IMPORTATION OF 
 PLUMAGE, GAME, ETC. 
 
 ACT OF SEPTEMBER 21, 1922 
 [42 Stat. 915] 
 
 Par. 1419. Feathers and downs, on the skin or otherwise, crude or not 
 dressed, colored, or otherwise advanced or manufactured in any manner, not 
 specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem ; dressed, colored, or other- 
 wise advanced or manufactured in any manner, including quilts of down and 
 other manufactures of down ; artificial or ornamental feathers suitable for 
 use as millinery ornaments, artificial or ornamental fruits, vegetables, grains, 
 leaves, flowers, and stems or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, not 
 specially provided for, GO per centum ad valorem ; natural leaves, plants, shrubs, 
 herbs, trees, and parts thereof, chemically treated, colored, dyed or painted, 
 not specially provided for, 60 per centum ad valorem ; boas, boutonnieres, 
 wreaths, and all articles not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief 
 value of any of the feathers, flowers, leaves, or other material herein men- 
 tioned, 60 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the importation of birds of 
 paradise, 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, and not for scientific or educational purposes, is hereby pro- 
 hibited ; but this provision shall not apply to the feathers or plumes of 
 ostriches or to the feathers or plumes of domestic fowls of any kind : Provided 
 further, That birds of paradise and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, 
 skins, or parts thereof, and all 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, of like kind to those the importation 
 of which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, which 
 may be found in the United States, on and after the passage of this act, except 
 as to such plumage or parts of birds in actual use for personal adornment, and 
 except such plumage, birds, or parts thereof imported therein for scientific or 
 educational purposes, shall be presumed for the purpose of seizure to have been 
 imported unlawfully after October 3, 1913, and the collector of customs shall 
 seize the same unless the possessor thereof shall establish, to the satisfaction 
 of the collector, that the same were imported into the United States prior to 
 October 3, 1913, or as to such plumage or parts of birds that they were plucked 
 or derived in the United States from birds lawfully therein; and in case of 
 seizure by the collector, he shall proceed as in case of forfeiture for violation 
 of the custom laws, and the same shall be forfeited, unless the claimant shall 
 in any legal proceeding to enforce such forfeiture, other than a criminal prose- 
 cution, overcome the presumption of illegal importation and establish that the 
 birds or articles seized, of like kind to those mentioned the importation of 
 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 use; 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 be destroyed. 
 
 That 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 847), or the act 
 
B. S. 65] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 15 
 
 of July 3, 1918 (40 Statutes at Large, page 755), or any other law of the 
 United 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 at such trial if such seizure has 
 been made, it shall be made to api>ear 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 that the possession, acquisition, or purchase of 
 such leathers is or has been made in violation of the provisions of the act 
 of March 4, 1913, chapter 145 (37 Statutes at Large, page 847), or the act of 
 July 3, 1918 (40 Statutes at Large, page 755), or any other law of the United 
 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 game (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. [By proclamation of October 3, 1925, the President reduced the duty 
 on live bob white quail valued at $5 each or less from 50 to 25 cents.] 
 
 Par. 712. Dressed or undressed birds (except poultry) are dutiable at 8 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 manufac- 
 tures thereof, 50 per cent ad valorem ; other furs dressed on the skin, not 
 advanced further than dyeing, 25 per cent ad valorem. 
 
 Par. 1507. Wild animals and birds intended for exhibition in zoological 
 collections for scientific or educational purposes and not for sale or profit 
 are admitted free. 
 
 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 Agricul- 
 ture for propagating purposes ; specimens may also be imported free for sci- 
 entific collections. 
 
 Par. 1579. Raw 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 TARIFF ACT PROHIBITING IMPORTATION OF PLUM- 
 AGE, 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. 
 
16 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A.— B. S. 65] 
 
 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 (Herpestes griseus) or mongoose of any kind; 
 
 (b) Common mynah, Chinese mynah, crested mynah, or any other species of 
 the starling family (Sturnidae) ; 
 
 (c) Java sparrows, rice bird, nutmeg finch, or other species of the weaver 
 bird family (Ploceidae) : 
 
 (d) European chaffinch (Fringilla caelebs) ; 
 
 (e) Great titmouse (Parus major). 
 
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