Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE

Fish and Game Administration
Manila

FISH AND GAME ADMINISTRATIVE )

ORDER NO. 5 )

Date: September 26, 1934

SUBJECT: Closed season for certain species of birds and mammals.

Pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 2590, as amended by Acts No. 2666, 3730 and
4003, the following closed seasons for certain birds and mammals are hereby
established for the information and guidance of all concerned:

1. Snipes and other shore birds. For any and all species of snipes, plovers. sandpipers.
Curlews, godwits, tattlers, turnstones, lapwings, stints, phalaropes and jacanas - the
period from December 16th of one year to September 15th of the following year,
inclusive.
2. Ducks. - For any and all species of ducks - the period from February 1st to October 3
1st, inclusive of each year.

3. Doves, pigeons, etc. - For any and all species of doves (except barred ground dove),
pigeons, partridges, quails, painted quails, pheasants and wild chicks - the period from
January 1st to July 3 1st, inclusive, of each year.

4. Coots, gallinules and rails. - For any and all species of coots, gallinules and rails - the period
from April 16th to November 15th inclusive, of each year.

5. Hornbills, peacock pheasants, etc. For any and all species of hornbills, peacock
pheasants and mound builders - the period from January 1st to December 3 1st.
inclusive, of each year. except from July 1st to July 3 1st, inclusive, of 1935. and during
the same period of every second year thereafter.

6. Other protected birds. By virtue of the provisions of Section 2 of Act No. 2590, as
amended, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, wound or kill in any manner at any season of
the year the following birds:

Accentors Cuckoo shrikes Man-O’-War birds Shrikes

Babblers Darters Marsh Warblers Shortwings
Barbets Dominicos Mayas Silvereyes
Barred ground doves Drongos Minivets Starlings
Beebirds Eagles Mynahs Storks
Bitterns Egrets Night Jars Sunbirds
Bramblings Fairy bluebirds Nuthatches Swallows
Broadbills Fly Catchers Orioles Swifts
Bulbuls Frogmouths Ospreys Tailorbirds
Bulfinches Gannets Owls Tailorwarblers
Buntings Galancians Parakeets Terns
Bush Grebes Parrots Thrushes
Chats Gulls Pelicans Thickheads
 Cisticolas Hawks Petrels Titmice
Coletos Herons Pipits Trogons
Cormorants Ibises Pittas Warblers
Cockatoos Ioras Restarts Wagtails
Cranes Kingfisher Rollers Wheaters
Crepers Lalages Rubythroats Willow warblers
Crossbills Larks Shamas Woodpeckers
Crows Leafbirds Swallow shrikes Flowerpeckers
Cuckoos Lorikeets Shearwaters

Provided. However. That eagles, hawks, ospreys, crows, house sparrows, herons
galancians and mayas may be destroy ed by property owners whenever they become
injurious to their property.

7.Birds’ nests. - For birds that make edible nests and edible bird's must time period
from April 1st to June 30th inclusive, of each year: Provided, however, That during time
open season edible bird's nests shall be taken tinder license duly issued in accordance
with Act No. 3379 and that no person shall take, sell, purchase, or have in his or their
possession any such lest oh less than ten grains weight.

8. Squirrels and lemurs. - For all species of Squirrels and lemurs the period from
January 1st to December 31st, inclusive, of each year except January 1st to January
31st inclusive, of 1935. and time same period of each second year thereafter.

9. Deer. – For any and all species of Squirrels and lemurs – the period from January 1st to
December 31st, inclusive, of each year: Provided, however, That the hunting, taking, wounding,
or killing of doe (female deer) at any season of the year is hereby prohibited.

10. Musk deer and tamarao. - For any and all species of musk deer and tamarao - the
period from January 1st to December 31st inclusive of each year except from January
1st to January 31st inclusive of 1934. and during the same period of each second year
thereafter: Provided. however, That the hunting, taking, wounding, or killing of female
tamarao and female musk deer at any season of the year is hereby prohibited.

11. Bag limits. -. During the open season however no person shah kill or catch in one
day more than twenty five (25) ducks twenty-five wild doves and pigeons, twelve (12)
curlews, fifty (50) snipes and twenty-five (25) quails, or in one month more than two (2)
male dear or in one year more than one (I) male tamarao.

12.Game refuges and bird sanctuaries. - All national parks, botanical gardens, public
parks public school sites, public play-grounds, government experimental and breeding
stations, government seed farms, government stock farms, public building sites,
government nurseries, communal forests, communal pastures, cemeteries, and all public
lands and forests within a radius of one kilometer from any government resthouses are
hereby declared game refuges and bird sanctuaries. It shall be unlawful for any person to
hunt, take, wound or kill, or in any manner disturb or drive away front the places mentioned above,
any wild birds or animals, or take or destroys the nests or eggs of such birds in the said places.

13.Injurious animals. - Wild pigs may be taken or killed in any manner at any season of
the year, and monkeys, wild cats and other mammals not mentioned herein may be
caught or destroyed by property owners at any time that such animals cause destruction
to their property.

14. Monthly statement of cold storage. - For the purpose of this Order, all cold storage
plants shall be required to furnish the Fish and Game Administration a monthly statement
setting forth all game birds and mammals deposited with them, the date of deposit amid
the names of the persons making the deposit - tabulated as follows:

15. Presumption of law violation.- Any person, who, during the closed season, has in
possession, sells, barters, or exchanges, or offers for sale, barter or exchange, any bird,
mammal or game animal protected in this Order, shall be presumed to have taken,
caught or hunted said bird or mammal in violation of the provisions of this Order and
shall be subject to the penalties herein described.

16.Penalties. - Any person violating this Order shall be punished for each offense by a
fine of not less than ten pesos nor more than two hundred pesos. 1mm case of
insolvency the corresponding subsidiary imprisonment shall he suffered, arid in case of
subsequent offense, the court may impose in addition to the imprisonment not exceeding
thirty days. Fifty per centum of the collected fine shall be paid to the informer specified in
the judgment of the Court. (Section 17, Act No. 2590, as amended).

17.Deputies and their duties. - Game wardens, foresters, rangers, forest guards of the
Bureau of Forestry: members of the Philippines Constabulary; members of municipal
and municipal district police; land inspectors, land surveyors of the Bureau of Lands;
agricultural extension agents, plant inspectors of the Bureau of Plant Industry; and such
other competent officials, employees or persons as may, by virtue of Section 10 of Act
No. 2590, as amended, be designated in writing by the Secretary of Agriculture and
Commerce, are hereby made deputies of said Department Head and empowered: (a) to
enforce the provisions of this Administrative Order; (b) to ascertain whether persons
found engaged in hunting or taking any protected wild animal life, nests or eggs or
youngs of such animals are duly provided with licenses required; (c) to arrest persons
found committing or attempting to commit an offense against the provisions of Act No.
2590, as amended, and of this Administrative Order; (d) to seize, when deemed
necessary, for evidence or for such purposes as the Secretary of Agriculture and
Commerce or his duly authorized representative may consider advisable, any
equipment, apparatus or contrivance used or which may be used to kill, take or capture
any bird or mammal and birds or to kill, take or capture any bird or mammal and birds or
mammals hunted, captured or killed or otherwise taken or found in possession of any
person in violation of the laws and regulations; and (e) to report violations to the
Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce or to the Chief, Fish and Game Administration,
for appropriate action.

18.Repealing provision - This Order shall supersede Department Administrative Orders

Nos. 1, series of 1929; and 29, series of 1931;Department Administrative Order No. 29-
1, series of 1932;and all orders, rules and regulations heretofore issued inconsistent with
the provisions of this Order.

19. Date of effectivity. - This Order shall take effect on December 1, 1934.

(SGD.) EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ

Secretary

APPROVED:

(SGD.) FRANK MURPHY

Governor General