Evening journal., 1913-10-22
FEDERAL GAME
LAW EXPLAINED
Under itDuCkS Are Now Law
full Delaware Game Until
November |
CLOSED SEASON ON
GAME BIRDS DEFERRED

rebre, OF Dover, chief game ana flsl
warden of Delaware. has issued th'
following explanation:
When President Wilson. on October
/, last affixed his signature to the
Regulations for the Protection o.
Migratory Birds, the sectivorous birds
became the wards of Uncle Sam.
The following regulations are nov
effective in Delaware.
1. For the purpose of these regu'
lations the following shall be consid-
cred migratory game in birds:
A. Anatidao or Waterfowl, includ'
ing brant, wild ducks, geese. anc
swans.
B. Gruidae or cranes, including
little brown, sandhill, and whoopins
cranes.
c. Rallidae or rails. including
coots, gallinules, and sora and other
rails.
d. Limicolae or shore birds. in
cluding avocets, curlew, dowitchers
godwits, knots. oyster catchers, pahl-
ropes, plover, sandpipers. snipe, stills
urf birds, turnstones, willett, wood
cock, yellowlegs.
E. Columbidae or pigeons, includ-
ing doves and wild pigeons.
For the purpose of these regula-
tions the following shall be consider
ed migratory insectivorous birds:
f. Bobolinks. catbirds. chickadees,
cuckoos flickers. flycatchers, gros-
beaks, tanagers, humming birds, king
let's, martins, meadowlarks. night
hawks, or bull bats, nuthatches,
orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows,
swifts, titmice, thrushes, vireos. war
blers. wax wings, whipporwills.
woodpeckers, and wrens, and all 9TH
er perching birds, which feed entirely
or chiefly on insects
2. A daily closed season on all
game and insectivorous
birds shall extend from sunset to sun
rise.
3. A closed season on migratory
nsectivorous birds shall continue to
December 81, 1913, and each year
shall begin January /, and
continue to December 81, both dates
inclusive, provided that nothing in
his or any other other of these regu-
ations shall be construed to prevent
he issue or permits for collecting
birds for scientific purposes, in ac-
,ordance with the laws and regula-
ions in force in the respective states
and territories and the District of Co
umbia; and, provided, further, that
The closed season for reedbirds or
ricebirds in Maryland. the District Of
Columbia, Virginia, and South Caro-,
ak,I
end August 81. next following both
dates inclusive.
A. a eiosoa season shall continue
until September l. 1918, on the fol-
lowing migratory game birds:
Band-tailed pigeons. little brown,
sandhill, and whooping cranes, swans
curlews, and all shorebirds except
the black-breasted and golden plover
Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, and
the greater and lesser yellowlegs.
A closed season shall continue until
September l. 1918, on wood ducks in
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island. Con-
necticut. New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
West Virginia. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
New York, Michigan. Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, Kansas, California,
Oregon and Washington: on rails in
California and Vermont. and on wood
cock in Illinois and Missouri.
5. A closed season shall continue
between January \and December 81
both dates inclusive, Of each year on
all migratory birds passing over OF
at rest on any Of the waters of the
main streams of the following navi.
~atr. A.
River between Minneapolis, MINI.
and Memphis. Tenn. and the Missouri
River between Bismarck, n. D., anC
Nebraska City, Neb.. and on the kill
ing or capture of any Of such birds
on or over the shores Of any of saiC
rivers, or at any point within thu
limits aforesaid, from any boat. rat
or>other device. floating or otherwise
in or on any such waters.
Regulation s divides the Unite
States into two zones, zone No.
called the breeding zone. is in thl
North, while zone No. 2, termed tn
wintering zone, comprises States ly
ing wholly or In part south of latitud
40 degrees and the Ohio River. Della
ware is in zone No. 2.
The following are the open sea
sons in Delaware: Waterfowl lin
cluding all wild ducks), opens No
vember 1, closes January 81; railI
ooots and Gallinules, opens Septem
Der 1, closes November 30; woodcocl
opens November Is, closes Decembe
81; plover, snipe and yellowlegs
opens September 1, closes Decembe
Is.
All other birds named above ar
protected all the year, and cannot b
killed at any time. The penalty 70
violating any provision of this lay
Is $4,000 fine or ninety days impris
onment, or both.
A comprehensive PIN for the en-
forcement of the new law has beel
made. The whole country has bee
divided into a number Of districts
with an inspector In charge of eacl
district. Delaware is in what
known as the Middle States District
OF which d. G. SpeenbuFgh of Ney
York city has been made inspector
He has already appointed severa
federal wardens in Delaware and vii
soon appoint others.
This Jaw was passed by Congress
and approved by President Tai
March 4, 1913. being the last &C
signed by him as President. The De
partment Of Agriculture was direct
ed 10 prepare the regulations, an
they have now been approved b
President Wilson.
This law was created at the inst
cation Of the Department Of Agricul
ture as the result of its long and sci
entihc study of the habits and us
OF birds, it having been clearly dem