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legs); provided that during such ten years 

 the close seasons on cranes, swans, and 

 curlew in the Province of British Columbia 

 shall be made by the proper authorities of 

 that Province within the general dates and 

 limitations elsewhere prescribed in this 

 Convention for the respective groups to 

 which these birds belong. 



Article IV. The High Contracting 

 Powers agree that special protection shall 

 be given the wood duck and the eider 

 duck, either (i) by a close season extending 

 over a period of at least five years, or (2) 

 by the establishment of refuges, or (3) 

 by such other regulations as may be 

 deemed appropriate. 



Article V. The taking of nests or eggs 

 of migratory game or insectivorous or 

 non-game birds shall be prohibited, except 

 for scientific or propagating purposes 

 under such laws or regulations as the 

 High Contracting Powers may severally 

 deem appropriate. 



Article VI. The High Contracting 

 Powers agree that the shipment or export 

 of migratory birds or their eggs from any 

 State or Province, during the continuance 

 of the close season in such State or 

 Province, shall be prohibited except for 

 scientific or propagating purposes, and 

 the international traffic in any birds or 

 eggs at such times captured, killed, taken, 

 or shipped at any time contrary to the 

 laws of the State or Province in which 

 the same were captured, killed, taken or 

 shipped shall be likewise prohibited. 

 Every package containing migratory birds 

 or any parts thereof or any eggs of migra- 

 tory birds transported, or offered for 

 transportation from the Dominion of Can- 

 ada into the United States or from the 

 United States into the Dominion of Can- 

 ada, shall have the name and address of 

 the- shipper and an accurate statement of 

 the contents clearly marked on the out- 

 side of such package. 



Article VII. Permits to kill any of the 

 above-named birds which, under extra- 

 ordinary conditions, may become seri- 

 ously injurious to the agricultural or 

 other interests in any particular com- 

 munity, may be issued by the proper 

 authorities of the High Contracting Powers 

 under suitable regulations prescribed 

 therefor by them respectively, but such 

 permits shall lapse, or may be cancelled, 

 at any time when, in the opinion of said 

 authorities, the particular exigency has 

 passed, and no birds killed under this 

 article shall be shipped, sold, or offered 

 for sale. 



Article VIII. The High Contracting 

 Powers agree themselves to take, or 

 propose to their respective appropriate 

 law-making bodies, the necessary meas- 

 ures for insuring the execution of the 

 present Convention. 



Article IX. The present Convention 

 shall be ratified by the President of the 

 United States of America, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Senate 

 thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. 

 The ratifications shall be exchanged at 

 Washington as soon as possible and the 

 Convention shall take effect on the date 

 of the exchange of the ratifications. It 

 shall remain in force for fifteen years, and 

 in the event of neither of the High Con- 

 tracting Powers having given notification, 

 twelve months before the expiration of 

 said period of fifteen years, of its intention 

 of terminating its operation, the Conven- 

 tion shall continue to remain in force for 

 one year and so on from year to year. 



In faith whereof, the respective Pleni- 

 potentiaries have signed the present Con- 

 vention in duplicate and have hereunto 

 affixed their seals. 



Done at Washington this sixteenth 

 day of August, one thousand nine hundred 

 and sixteen. 



[Seal] ROBERT LANSING 

 [Seal] CECIL SPRING RICE 



