PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 27, 1944
States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, con-
cluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United
States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory
birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, and having
due regard to the laws of the United Mexican States relating to the
exportation and importation of game mammals, and parts and prod-
ucts thereof, included in the terms of the said Convention between
the United States and the United Mexican States, and to the laws of
the States and Territories and of the District of Columbia from and
into which such mammals, parts, and products thereof, may be pro-
posed to be exported or imported, and to the laws of the United States
forbidding importation of certain live mammals injurious to the inter-
ests of agriculture and horticulture, have determined 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, transportation, carriage, expor-
tation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests
and eggs, and the exportation and importation of such mammals to
and from Mexico, and in accordance with such determination, do
hereby adopt the following as suitable regulations permitting and
governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, pur-
chase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and impor-
tation of said migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof, and
the exportation and importation of game mammals and parts and
products thereof to and from Mexico:
REGULATION 1.-D E F INI T IONS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME
MAMMALS
Migratory birds included in the terms of the conventions between
the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory
birds, and between the United States and United Mexican States
for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded,
respectively, August 16, 1916, and February 7, 1936, are as follows:
1. Game birds:
(a) Anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese,
and swans.
(b) Gruidae, or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whoop-
ing cranes.
(c) Rallidae, or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora and other
rails.
(d) Limicolae (charadrii), or shorebirds, including avocets, curlews,
dowitchers, godwits knots, oyster-catchers, phalaropes, plovers,
sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and
yellowlegs.
(e) Columbidae, or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons.
2. Insectivorous and other nongame birds:
Cuckoos, flickers, and other woodpeckers; nighthawks, or bullbats,
chuckwill's-widow, poorwills, and whippoorwills; swifts; humming-
birds; kingbirds, phoebes, and other flycatchers; horned larks;
bobolinks, cowbirds, blackbirds, grackles, meadowlarks, and orioles;
grosbeaks, finches, sparrows, and buntings; tanagers; martins and other
swallows; waxwings; phainopeplas; shrikes; vireos; warblers; pipits;
catbirds, mockingbirds, and thrashers; wrens; brown creepers; nut-
hatches; chickadees and titmice; kinglets and gnatcatchers; robins
and other thrushes; all other perching birds which feed entirely or
chiefly on insects; and auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes,
guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins,
shearwaters, and terns.
39 Stat. 1702
50 Stat. 1311.
39 Stat. 1702; 0
Stat. 131L
1137
58 STAT.]
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