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capture and killing in such a manner that the protective measures contained 

 in Article 3 may be carried into effect gradatim. 



Article 5. 



Besides the general prohibitions enacted in Article 3, it shall be forbidden, 

 from 1st March to 15th September of each year, to take or kill {those 

 useful birds ivhicli arc cnuiiicratcd in the first Scliedulc attaclied to this 

 Co)tvention\ * 



The sale or offering for sale of the same is also, during the same period, 

 forbidden. 



The hii^h contracting parties engage, as far as their respective laws 

 permit, to prohibit the import and delivery as well as the transport of the 

 said birds from ist March till 15th September. 



\The duration of the close season prescribed in this Article may be 

 modified in the countries of Northern Europe.] j 



Articlk 6. 



The respective authorities may give exceptional temporary licences to 

 the owners of vineyards, orchards, and gardens, of nurseries, afforested 

 ground or cornfields, or to the cultivators of the same or to individuals 

 entrusted with the control of the same, for the shooting of birds whose 

 presence is harmful and causes real damage. 



However, the sale or offering for sale of birds shot under such circumstances 

 shall be forbidden. 



Article 7. 



The respective authorities may grant exemptions from the enactments of 

 this Convention for scientific purposes or to encourage the propagation of 

 birds, in single instances and after taking all measures of precaution 

 necessary to prevent any abuse of the same. 



Permission may be granted — similar preventive measures being taken in 

 every case — for the takings, sale, and keeping of birds intended to be kept in 

 cages. Permission to be granted by the respective authorities. 



Article 8. 



The enactments of the present Convention do not apply to poultry, or to 

 birds regarded as game (winged game) which are on preserves and are 

 included by the Parliaments of the respective countries among birds 

 considered as game. 



'Jhe destruction of winged game, on any other territory whatsoever, is 

 permitted with firearms only and in the period prescribed by law. 



The signatory States [are requested] I to prohibit the sale, transport, and 

 delivery of any winged game the shooting of which is forbidden in their own 

 country, as long as this prohibition lasts. 



Article 9. 

 Each of the contracting parties may grant exemption from the enactments 

 of the present Convention : 



1. In the case of birds, the shooting and destruction of which, as noxious 

 to the interests of shooting sport and fishing, is permitted by the Parliament 

 of the respective country ; 



2. In the case of birds branded as noxious to the agriculture of the 

 country by the Parliament of the respective State. 



In case there should not be an official schedule compiled by the respective 



* OrijJtnal : " les oiseaux quelcunques, sauf les exceptions indiques aux articles 

 8 et 9." 



Modified: "lei oiseaux utiles enumeres dans la liste No. i annexee a la 

 Convention." 



t Additional. 



X Originally: " s'engagent." 



