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ESISTER
VOLUME 13

NUMBER 168

Washington, Wednesday, August 30, 1950

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 2900
Amendments of the R egulations R elating to M igratory B irds BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the Secretary of the In terior has prescribed and adopted, after notice and public procedure pursuant to section 4 of the Administrative Proce dure Act of June 11, 1946 60 Stat. 238, and has submitted to me for approval the following amendments of the regulations relating to migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds con cluded 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 concluded February 7, 1936:
Amendment of M igratory B ird T reaty A ct R egulations
By virtue of and pursuant to authority vested in me by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3,1918 40 Stat. 755, and Reorganization Plan n 53 Stat.
1431, and in accordance with the pro visions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 60 Stat. 238, I
hereby, prescribe the following amend ments of the regulations approved and proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2801 of July 29, 1948, as amended, and adopt such amendments as suitable regulations permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, car riage, exportation, and importation of such migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof:
1. Paragraph 2 of 6.1 a is amended to read as follows:
2 Insectivorous and other nongame birds. Cuckoos including road-runner and Anis, flickers, and other wood peckers; nighthawks, or b u l l b a t s , chuck-wills widow, poorwills, a n d whippoorwills; swifts; hummingbirds;
kingbirds; phoebes, and other flycatch ers; horned larks; bobolinks, cowbirds, blackbirds, grackles, meadowlarks, and orioles; grosbeaks including cardinals, finches, sparrows, and buntings includ
ing towhees; tanagers; martins and other swallows; waxwings; phainopeplas; shrikes; vireos; warblers; pipits, catbirds, mockingbirds, and thrashers;
wrens; brown creepers; nuthatches; tit mice including chickadees, verdin and bush tits ; kinglets and gnatcatchers;
robins and other thrushes; and auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shearwa ters, and terns.

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation
Pa8e
Migratory birds; amendment of regulations_________________ 5829
Executive Orders
Enabling certain employees of the Federal Government to acquire a competitive status________ 5834

EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
2.
Section 6.3 is amended to read as follows:
Alien Property, Office of 6.3 Means by which migratory Notices:
Vesting orders, etc.:
gamebirds may be taken, a Migra Fuchs, Friedrich___________ 5865
tory game birds on which open seasons Gieseking, Walter___ _______ 5862
are specified in 6.4 may be taken dur Gleich, Klara______________ 5863
ing such seasons only with bow and ar Grafe, Louise________ ,___ 5863
row or with a shotgun not larger than Halbauer, Bruno H_________ 5861
No. 10 gauge, fired from the shoulder, Iwatsubo, Mrs. Matsue_____ 5863
except as permitted by 6.5, 6.8, and Jundt, Maria Magdalena___ 5864
6.9, but they shall not be taken with or Klaeber, John F___________ 5864
by means of any automatic-loading or Knott, Mrs. Luise__ ________ 5864
hand-operated repeating shotgun cap Moltkehansen, Ivar Juel____ 58ft5
able of holding more than three shells, Nakamura, Toda__________ 5865
the magazine of which has not been cut Peers, Agusta______________ 5864
off or plugged with a one-piece metal or Seidensticker, Clara________ 5861
wooden filler incapable of removal with Smyth, William Gustave____ 5865
out disassembling the gun so as to re Unverzhgt, Charles_________ 5866
duce the capacity of the said gun to not Von Zech-Burkersorda, Julius w more than three shells at one time in Count_________________
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the magazine and chamber combined.
Such birds may be taken during the open Atomic Energy Commission seasons from land or water, with aid of Rules and regulations:
a dog, and from a blind, boat or other U. S. Atomic Energy Commis floating craft not under tow or sail, ex sion Advisory Board of Con cept a sinkbox battery, motorboat tract Appeals ; rules of excluding a boat having a detached out procedure________________ 5834
board motor, and sailboat: Provided, Aeronautics Administra That nothing herein shall permit Civil tion the taking of migratory game birds from or by means, aid, or use of any See also Civil Aeronautics Board.
motor vehicle or an aircraft of any kind; Proposed rule making:
Scheduled air carrier rules;
the taking of waterfowl by means, aid, mechanical hazard and difflor use of cattle, horses, mules, or live _culty reports____________ 5850
duck or goose decoys; the concentrat ing, driving, rallying, or stirring up of Civil Aeronautics Board waterfowl and coot by means or aid of Notices:
any motor-driven land, water or air con Air star route______________ 5853
veyance or sailboat: Provided further, Rules and regulations:
That nothing herein shall exclude the Certificates :
Duration and termination:
picking up of injured or dead waterfowl, Aircraft dispatcher______ 5838
coot, rails, or gallinules by means of a Airline transport pilot____ 5836
motorboat, sailboat, or other craft.
Air-trafific control - tower b Waterfowl, mourning doves and operator_____________ 5828
white-winged doves, may not be taken, Flight engineer_________ 5842
directly or indirectly, by baiting and Flight navigator________ 5842
Continued on p. 5831
Mechanic______________ 5837
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