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INFORMATION FOR MAN WITH THE GUN The dates of open seasons for migratory game birds shown imder the various states and provinces are the times when these birds may be hunted without violating either state laws or federal regulations. Federal regulations now prohibit shooting from sunset to half .in hour before sunrise. The regulations under the federal migratory-bird treaty act prohibit throughout the United States the killing -it any time of the following birds: Band-tailed pigepns; little brown, sand-hill, and whooping cranes; wood duck, eider ducks, swans; curlews, willet, upland plover, and all shorebirds except the black-bellied and golden plovers, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser ycllowlegs; cuckoos, flickers and other woodpeckers; nighthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor-wills; swifts; hummingbirds; flycatchers; bobolinks, meadowlnrks, and orioles; grosbeaks; tan-agers; martins and other swallows; waxwings; shrikes; vireos; warblers; pipits; catbirds and brown thrashers; wrens; brown creepers; nuthatches; chickadees and titmice; kinglets and gnateatchers; robins and other thrushes; and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on inscets; and also auks, anklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shearwaters, and terns. In some states certain days of the week constitute close seasons throughout the time in which killing is permitted. Hunting on Sunday is prohibited in all states and provinces east of the one hundred and fifth meridian except Illinois, Louisiana, -Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin and Quebec. Mondays constitute a close season for waterfowl locally in Maryland and North Carolina; and certain other week days for waterfowl in several favorite ducking grounds in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Hunting is prohibited on election day in Maryland in Allegheny, Baltimore, Cecil, Charles, Frederick, and Harford counties; and when snow is on the ground in New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland. The migratory-bird treaty-act regulations permit the possession of migratory game birds during the open season and the first ten days following the close of the season. This provision has been considered in connection with state laws. Under the federal migratory-bird treaty act the sale of all migratory game birds is prohibited throughout the United States, except birds taken for scientific or propagating purposes, and waterfowl raised on farms or preserves, under proper permit from the Secretary of Agriculture. Farmers Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture.
