272 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
seasons during which no hunting shall be done except for scientific or 
propagating purposes under permits issued by proper authorities. 
1. The close season on migratory game birds shall be between 10th 
March and ist September, except that the close of the season on the 
limicole or shorebirds in the Maritime Provinces of Canada and in those 
States of the United States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean which are 
situated wholly or in part north of Chesapeake Bay shall be between 
1st February and 15th August, and that Indians may take at any time 
scoters for food but not for sale. The season for hunting shall be further 
restricted to such period not exceeding three and one-half months as the 
High Contracting Powers may severally deem appropriate and define by 
law or regulation. 
2. The close season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue 
throughout the year. 
3. The close season on other migratory nongame birds shall continue 
throughout the year, except that Eskimos and Indians may take at any 
season auks, auklets, guillemots, murres and puffins, and their eggs for 
food and their skins for clothing, but the birds and eggs so taken shall 
not be sold or offered for sale. 
ARTICLE III 
The High Contracting Powers agree that during the period of ten 
years next following the going into effect of this Convention, there shall 
be a continuous close season on the following migratory game birds, 
to wit: 
Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill and whooping cranes, swans, 
curlew and all shorebirds (except the black-breasted and golden plover, 
Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs); 
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 limita- 
tions 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 (1) 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 
nongame birds shall be prohibited, except for scientific or propagating 
