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 PROCLAMATIONS AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and sub- mitted to me the following amendments of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, as amended, relating to migratory birds and game mammals included in the terms of the Con- vention between the United States and Great Britain for the protec- tion of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Conven- tion between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain game mammals con- cluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENTS OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Under authority and direction of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II, effective July 1, 1939 (53 Stat. 1431), I, J. A. Krug Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Con- vention between the United States and Great Britain for the pro- tection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Con- vention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and con- ventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, 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 follows the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, as last amended by Proclamation No. 2658 of July 31, 1945, and as so amended do hereby adopt such regulations as suitable reg- ulations, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof: Regulation 4, "Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migra- tory Game Birds", is amended to read as follows: Waterfowl (except wood ducks in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyo- ming; Canada geese, including Hutchins and cackling geese, and 1033 68 Stat. 1136. 16U. .C.C 704 note. Post, pp. 1067,1076. 39 Stat. 1702. 50 Stat. 1311. 16U. .C.. 703- 711. 5U.S.C.§133t note. 39 Stat. 1702. 50 Stat. 1311. 58 Stat. 1136; 59 Stat. 873. 16U.S.C.§704 note. Post, pp. 1067.1076. 58 Stat. 1139. 16U.S.C.I704 note. Post, pp. 1077, 1088, 1094. August 8, 1946 [No. 2699]

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