Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-03

The act to give effect to the
treaty between the United States
and Great Britain for the protection
of migratory birds and for other
purposes, has been approved by the
president, and became effective i'm
mediately.
The provisions of the treaty pro-
vide protection throughout the year
to all migratory insectivorOus birds
and migratory nOngame birds, and
provides that the open season for
hunting migratory game birds shall
not exceed three and one-half
months, which open season shall
take place between Sept. 1 and
March 10.
The migratory birds included in
the terms of the treaty are the fol-
lowing:
Migratory game birds: Brant,
wild ducks, geese and swans,
cranes, rails, coots tmUd hens),
gaIlinules (rice hens), avocets, cur
lew. dowitchers, gOdwits, knots,
oyster catchers, phalarOpes, plov-
ers, sandpipers, snipe, stills, surf
birds, turnstones, willet, wOodcock,
yellowIegs, doves and wild pig
cons.
Migratory fnsectivorous birds:
Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees,
cuckoos, f1ickers, flycatchers, gros-
beaks, humming birds, kinglets,
martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks
or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles,
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tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos,
warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills,
woodpeckers, and Wrens, and all
ether perching birds which feed en-
tirely or chiefly on insects.
Other migratory nOngame birds:
Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars,
gannets, grebes (hell Divers, gull
lemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, looms,
INJURIES, petrels, pufdns, shearwa-
tiers, and terms.
The migratory bird treaty act"
repeats the migratory bird law
and provides the following:
That unless and except as per-
mitted by regulations it shall be
unlawful to hunt. 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, trans
port, cause to be transported, carry
or cause to be carried by any
means whatever, receive for ship
ment, transportation, or carriage,
or export, at any time or in any
manner, any migratory bird inClud,
ed in the terms of the treaty.
fThe secretary of agriculture is
authorized and~directed, from time
to time, to determine when, to what
extent, if at all, and by what means,
it is compatible with the terms of
the treaty to allow hunting, taking,
capture, killing, possession, sale,
purchase shipments, transportation,
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 accordance with such determine
ton, which regulations become eff
fective when approved by the presi-
dent
1t shall be unlawful to ship,
transport, or carry, by any means
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,
or carried. at any time
contrary to the law Of the state,
territory or district in which it was
killed or taken, or from
which it was shipped, transported,
or carried.
1t shall be unlawful TO import
any bird, or any part. nest or egg
thereof, captured, killed, taken,
shipped, transported or carried
contrary to the laws of any prov
ince of the Dominion of Canada in
y hich the same was captured, kill
ed or taken, or from which IL was
shipped. transported or carried.
Amy person authorized TO enforce
the provisions of the act is given
power. without warrant, to arrest
any person committing a yinlatdon