268 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
Later in the same month the subject was discussed in 
Ottawa at the annual meeting of the Commission of Con- 
servation, and the following resolution was passed by the 
commission: 
Resolved, That the provincial governments of Canada be urged to 
solicit the good offices of the Dominion Government in obtaining the 
negotiation of a convention for a treaty between Great Britain and the 
United States, for the purpose of securing more effective protection for 
the birds which pass from one country to another. 
The Dominion Parks Branch of the Department of the 
Interior also interested itself in furthering this measure. 
In the following month (February, 1914) the United States 
Government submitted to the Canadian Government for 
its consideration the draft of a convention between Great 
Britain and the United States for the protection of migra- 
tory birds in the United States and Canada. The draft of 
the proposed convention was submitted to the several pro- 
vincial governments for their views, as the question was 
of provincial concern. The provincial governments unani- 
mously approved of the principle of the convention. As 
objections that were not considered to be insuperable were 
raised by only two of the provinces, and, as the Departments 
of Agriculture and of the Interior, and the Commission of 
Conservation strongly concurred in the opinion that the 
protection of these birds, as provided under the proposed 
convention, particularly on economic grounds, was most 
desirable, an Order in Council was passed on May 31, 1915, 
stating that the Canadian Government was favourably dis- 
posed to the conclusion of the proposed treaty. With a 
view to securing the settlement of our objections to certain 
provisions of the treaty further negotiations were under- 
taken in Washington early in 1916, as a result of which all 
the objections raised were completely met, with the excep- 
