Purpose: To establish migratory bird hunting season
Date: June 22, 1925
(Original document available here)
WHEREAS, The Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the authority vested in him by section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40Stat., 755), has submitted to me for approval, a regulation further amendatory of the regulations approved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be a suitable amendatory regulation permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows:
REGULATION 4. – OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS.
Regulation 4, sub-title “Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe” is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe. – The open seasons for waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks,
and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe shall be as follows:
In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and that portion of Washington lying east of the summit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from September 16 to December 31;
In New York (except Long Island) the open season shall be from September 24 to January 7;
In Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, California, Idaho, Oregon, and that portion of Washington lying west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from October 1 to January 15;
In that portion of New York known as Long Island, and in New Jersey, Delaware, Arizona, and that portion of Texas lying west and north of the main tracks of the International and Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the open season shall be from October 16 to January 31;
In Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and that portion of Texas lying east and south of the main tracks of the International and Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31; and
In Alaska the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15.
REGULATION 4. – OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS.
Regulation 4, sub-title “Black-bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs” is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Black – bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs – The open seasons for black – bellied and golden plovers and greater and lesser yellowlegs shall be as follows:
In Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia the open season shall be from August 16 to November 30;
In the District of Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Alaska the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15;
In Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and that portion of Washington lying east of the summit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from September 16 to December 31;
In Utah, Oregon, Idaho, and in that portion of Washington lying west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains the open season shall be from October 1 to January 15; and
In Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31.
REGULATION 4. – OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS.
Regulation 4, sub-title “Doves” is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Doves. – The open seasons for mourning doves shall be as follows:
In Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, that portion of Texas lying west and north of the main tracks of the International and Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15;
In Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi the open season shall be from October 16 to January 31;
In that portion of Texas lying east and south of the main tracks of the International and Great Northern Railroad extending from Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, and Longview, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad extending from Longview to Marshall and Texarkana the open season shall be from November 1 to December 31; and
In Louisiana the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, PRESIDENT OF THÉ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DO HEREBY APPROVE AND PROCLAIM the foregoing amendatory regulation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 22d day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth.
Citation: The Statutes at Large of the United States of America from December, 1925 to March, 1927
The Coolidge Foundation gratefully acknowledges the volunteer efforts of David McCann, who prepared this document for digital publication.