Morris tribune., 1913-08-22
RULES FOR BIRD
FATHERED.
Interest of Birds Rather Than
Hunters Is Given First
Consideration.
+ Asst March a federal law was

of the department of agricul-
ture and authorizing that department
to forIR and publish such regulations
as would assure the desired protection.
The department has issued its rules
and an explanation, so sportsmen need
not go wrong.
Preparation of the regulations was
intrusted to a committee of members
of the biological survey appointed by
the acting secret$Ay of agriculture
March Fl, 1913. This committee con-
Sists of T. S. Palmer, assistant chief,
chairman; A. *. Fisher. in charge of
economic investigations, and w. W.
Cooke, migratory expert. This COM
mittee went into the matter thorough
~, examined data on file, had maps
prepared, collected special information
and then made up their rules. which
they duly reported to the secretary.
The committee went on the theory
that regulatory laws heretofore enact
ed for the protection of game birds
had provided long open seasons and
had been favorable to hunters rather
than to the birds. In the rules pro-
posed the committee sought to reduce
the open season to reasonable limits
and to give the birds the benefit Of the
doubt. These regulations differ from
the ordinary restrictions under state
laws, since they take into considera-
ton the entire range Of the species and
the condition of the birds at all times
of the year. and not merely the local
conditions when a certain species is
most abundant in some particular
state or region. The regulations will
become operative on and after Oct. 1.
1918.
Birds Protected.
Regulation 1.-For the purpose Of the
regulations the following are consid-
cred migratory game birds:
(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including
brant, wild ducks, geese and swans.
Cb) Gruidae or cranes, including little
brown, sandhiIl and whooping cranes.
(c) RaIlidae or rails, including coots,
gallinules and sora and other rails.
Id Imicolae or shore birds, includ-
ing avocets, curlew, dowitchers. gold
wits, knots. oyster catchers, phala-
ropes, plover, sandpipers. snipe, stills,
surf birds, turnstoneS, wilIet, wood
cock and yellow legs.
(e) CoIumbidae or pigeons including
doves and wild pigeons.
For the purposes of these regulations
the following shall be considered mi
gratory insectivorous birds:
IT, Bobolinks, catbirda chickadees,
cuckoos. iycatchers, grosbeaks. hum
ming birds kinglets, martins, meadow
larks, night hawks or bull bats, nut
matches. orioles. robins, shrikes, swaI-
lows, swifts, tanagers. titmice, thrush
es, vircos. warblers, waxwings, whip
poorwills, woodpeckers and wrens and
all other perching birds which feed
entirely or chiefly on insects.
= Closed Seasons at Night.
Regulation "a daily closed season
on, all migratory game and insectiv-
Orous birds shall extend from sunset
to sunrise
Regulation "a closed season on
migratory insectivorous birds shall
continue to Dec 81, 1913, and each
year thereafter shall begin Jan 1 and
continue to Dec. 81, both dates inciu-
sive, provided that nothing in this
regulation shall be construed to pre-.
vent the issue Of permits for collecting
such birds for scientific purposes in
accordance with the laws and regula-
lions in force in the respective states
and territories and the District of
Columbia, and provided further that
the closed season on reedbirds or rice.
birds in Delaware, Maryland. the Dis.
trict Of Columbia, Virginia and South
Carolina shall begin Nov. l and end
Aug. 81 next following both dates in.
elusive
Five Year Closed Season.
Regulation "A closed season shall
continue until Sept 1, 1918, on the
following migratory game birds: Band
tailed pigeons, little brown, sand hill
and whooping cranes, swans, curlew
and all shore birds. except the black
Breasted and golden plover. Wilson
or jack snipe, woodcock and the great
er and the lesser yellow legs.
A closed season shall also continue
until Sept. /. 1918, on the wood duck
In Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont
Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Con.
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn.
gylvania, Ohio. Indiana. Michigan
West Virginia and Wisconsin: on raj
In California and Vermont and on
woodcock in Illinois and Missouri
Regulation ga closed season shall
continue between Jan. / and Oct. 81
both dates inclusive. of each year or
all migratory birds passing over or al
rest on any of the waters of the main
stream Of the following navigable riv
ers: The Mississippi river between
New Orleans and Minneapolis; the
Ohio river between it's mouth anC
Pittsburgh and the Missouri river be
tween its mouth and Bismarck, N. D.
and on the killing or capture of any
such birds on or over the shores of any