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 July,. 1916 EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 173 following shall be considered migratory game birds: (a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. (b) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. (c) Rallidae or rails, inoluding coots, gal- linules, and sora and other rafts. (d) Limicolae or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plover, sand- pipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. (e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be considered migratory in- sectivorous birds: (f) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuck- oos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, hum- mingbirds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax- wings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. Regulation 2. Closed season at Night. A daily closed season on all migratory game and insectivorous birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise. Regulation 3. Closed season on Insectivor- ous Birds. A closed season on migratory insectivor- ous birds shall continue throughout each year, except that the closed season on reed- birds or ricebirds in New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina shall commence November 1 and end August 31, next following, both dates inclusive: Provilleli, That nothing in this or any other of these regulations shall be construed to prevent the issue of permits for collecting birds for scientific purposes in accordance with the laws and regulations in force in the respective States and Ter- ritories and the District of Columbia. Regulation 4. Closed seasons on Certain Game Birds. A closed season shall continue until Sep- tember 1, 1918, on the following migratory game birds: Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, wood ducks, swans, curlew, willet, and all shore birds except the black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs. A closed season shall also continue until September 1, 1918, on rails in California and Vermont and on woodcock in Illinois and Missouri. Regulation 5. Zones. The following zones for the protection of migratory game and insectivorous birds are hereby established. Zone No. 1, the breeding zone comprising the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ve mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connec- ticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, West Vir- ginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebras- ka, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington--31 States. Zone No. , the wintering zone compris- ing the States of Delaware, Maryland, Dis- trict of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisi- ana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari- zona, and California--17 States, and the Dis- trict of Columbia. Regulation 6. Construction. For the purposes of regulations 7 and 8 each period of time therein prescribed as a closed season shall be construed to include the first and last day thereof. Regulation 7. Closed Seasons in Zone No. 1. Water/owl.--The closed season on water- fowl, including coots and gallinules, shall be between December 21 and September 6 next following, except as follows: Exceptions: In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York (except Long Island), Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia the closed season shall be between January 1 and September 15; In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connec- ticut, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Ne- vada the closed season shall be between January 16 and September 30; and In Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri the closed season shall be between March 11 and September 15 and between November 16 and February 9. Rails.--The closed season on sora and other rails, excluding coots and gallinules, shall be between December 1 and August 31 next following, except as follows: Exception: In Vermont the closed sea- son shall continue until the open season in 1918. horebirils.--The closed season on black- breasted and golden plover and greater and