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 PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 16, 1943 States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, 39Stat. 1702. concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory 0 Stat. 1311. birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have de- termined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of said conventions and act to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, trans- portation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and, in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend, as specified, the regulations ap- t54 Sta. 2615; 56 proved by Proclamation No. 2345 of August 11, 1939, as last amended Stat. 1965. 16U.s .c .5704note; by Proclamation No. 2562 of July 14, 1942, and as so amended do upp. II, 704 note. hereby adopt such regulations as suitable regulations permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchaser shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and im- portation of such migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof: 6S atS.1 .upp Regulation 4, "Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migra- II, 704 note. tory Game Birds," is amended to read as follows: REGULATION 4. - OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS 55 Stat. 1662; 56 Stat. 1968. 16 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 704 note. Post, p. 746. 16 U. S. C. 1715. 40 Stat. 755. 16U. S. C. 5S703- 711; Snpp. II, S 704 note. Waterfowl (except snow geese in Beaverhead, Gallatin, and Madi- son Counties in Montana, in Idaho, and in States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean; Ross' geese, and swans), coots, rails and gallinules, woodcocks, mourning or turtle doves, white-winged doves, and band- tailed pigeons may be taken each day from one-half hour before sunrise to sunset, except in Alexander County, Illinois, geese may be taken only from sunrise to 12:00 o'clock noon, and in Texas white- winged doves may be taken only from noon to sunset, during the open seasons prescribed therefor in this regulation, and they may be taken by the means and in the numbers permitted by regulations 3 and 5 of these regulations, respectively, and when so taken may be possessed in the numbers permitted by regulation 5 any day in any State, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or in the District of Columbia during the period constituting the open season where taken and for an additional period of 45 days next succeeding said open season, but no such bird shall be possessed in any State, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia at a time when such State, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or District prohibits the possession thereof. Nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the taking of migratory birds on any reservation or sanctuary established under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (45 Stat. 1222), nor on any area of the United States set aside under any other law, proclamation, or Executive order for use as a bird, game, or other wildlife reservation, breeding ground, or refuge except insofar as may be permitted by the Secretary of the Interior under existing law, nor on any area adjacent to any such refuge when such area is designated as a closed area under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Waterfowl and coot.-T he open seasons on waterfowl (except geese in Alexander County, Illinois, snow geese in Beaverhead, Gallatin, and Madison Counties in Montana, in Idaho, and in States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean; Ross' geese, and swans), and coot, in the several States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, shall be as follows, both dates inclusive: In Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hamp- shire, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, September 25 to December 3. 744 [57 STAT.

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