Newark post., 1913-10-22
The Federal Migratory
Bird Law AS IL
Affects Delswage

w men IfeSlutiiL W ilooil ci1 wv
ober Ist, last, at 1910 p. IN. affixed
his signature to the Regulations for
the Protection Of Migratory Birds,
the law at once became effective and
a long list Of migratory game and
insectivorous birds became the
wards Of Uncle Sam.
The following regulations are
now effective in Delaware.
/. For the purpose of these reg
ulations the following shall be con-
sidered migratory game birds:
a. Anatida or waterfowl, inc!ud-
ing brant, wild ducks, geese and
swans.
b. Gruidae or cranes, including
little brown, sandhill and whooping
cranes.
c. Rallidn or rails, including
coots, gallinules and sora and other
rails.
d. Limicole or shore birds, in-
cluding avocets, curlew, dowitchers
godwits, knots, oyster catchers,
pahlropes, plover, sandpipers, snipe
stills, surf birds, turnstones, wlllett
woodcock, and yellowlegs.
e. Columbida or pigeons, includ-
ing doves and wild pigeons.
For the purpose Of these regula-
tons the following shall be consid-
cred migratory insectivorous birds
f. Bobolinks, catbirds, chicka-
dees, cuckoos, hickers, fycatchers
grosbeaks, tanagers, humming bird
kinglets, martins, meadowlarks,
nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches
orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows
swifts, titmice, thrushes, vireos
warblers, waxwings, whipporwills
woodpeckers, and wrens, and al
other perching birds which feed ell
tireIy or chiefly on insects.
2. A daily closed season on al
migratory game and insectivorou'
birds shall extend from sunset t
sunrise.
3. A closed season on migratory
insectivorous birds shall continu;
to December 81, 1913, and eacI
year thereafter shall begin Janu
ary 1st, and continue to DecembeI
81, both dates inclusive, provided
that nothing in this or any other o.
these regulations shall be construed
to prevent the issue of permits fol
collecting birds for scientific pur
poses in accordance with the law:
and regulations in force i'll the re
spective States and Territories ant
the District of Columbia; and pro
yided further that the closed sea
son on reedbirds or ricebirds Ii
Maryland, the District of Columbia
Virginia, and South Carolina shal
begin November LIST and end Aug
ust 81, next following, both date
inclusive.
4. A closed season shall contin
lie until September l, 1918, on tn
following migratory game birds
Band-taiied pigeons, little brown
sandhill and whooping cranes
swans, curIew, and all shore bird
except the black breasted and gold
en- plover, Wilson or jack snlpe
woodcock and the greater and less
er yellowlegs.
A closed season shall also contin
he until September l, 1918, OIL
wood ducks in Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Nev
Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, NeV
York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Kansas, California, Ore
gon and Washington; on rails II
California and Vermont; and OF
woodcock in Illinois and Missouri
5. A closed season shall contin
ue between January LIST and Dee
ember 81, both dates inclusive, o
each year, on all migratory bird
passing over or at rest on any o
the waters of the main streams o
the following navigable rivers, t.
wit: The Mississippi River betWeel
Minneapolis, Mimi, and Memphis
Tenn, ,.and Missouri River betWeet
Bismarck, N. D., and Nebrask;
City, Neb., and on the killing ol
capture Of any of such birds on OF
over the shores of any of sale
rivers, or at any point within the
limits aforesaid, from any boat
raft or other device, floating OF
otherwise, in or on any such waters
Regulation 6 divides the United
States into two zones, zone NO /,
called the breeding zone, IS III the
North, while zone No. z, termed the
,v;ntaring zone. comprises states