THE FEDERAL MIGRATORY BIRD LAW 



State Laws for the protection of song and insect-eating 

 birds and some other species, preventing them from being 

 killed, possessed, or sold, have been safeguarded and inter- 

 locked by the Federal (International) Game Laws. The 

 result of the Convention called between the United States 

 and Great Britain for the protection of Migratory Birds 

 in the United States and Canada, was a Treaty signed at 

 Washington on Aug. 16, 1916. Ratified by Great Britain, 

 Oct. 20, 1916. Proclaimed, Dec. 8, 1916. 



This treaty gives Federal protection to the birds 

 specified, during flight over all lands and waters not 

 covered by State protection. And such birds may no- 

 where be taken except by special Federal permit or for 

 special purposes, even if unprotected by the laws of the 

 State through which they pass. 



Is not Citizen Bird being recognized everywhere as the 

 property of the State and not the victim of the Individual f 



M. O. W. 



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