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PROTECTION OF GAME AND WILD LIFE 271 



Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, 

 and the United States of America, being desirous of saving from indis- 

 criminate slaughter and of insuring the preservation of such migratory 

 birds as are either useful to man or are harmless, have resolved to adopt 

 some uniform system of protection which shall effectively accomplish 

 such objects, and to the end of concluding a convention for this purpose 

 have appointed as their respective plenipotentiaries: 



His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honourable Sir Cecil Arthur Spring- 

 Rice, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., etc.. His Majesty's ambassador extraordinary 

 and plenipotentiary at Washington; and 



The President of the United States of America, Robert Lansing, Secre- 

 tary of State of the United States; 



Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full 

 powers which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to 

 and adopted the following articles: — 



Article I 



The High Contracting Powers declare that the migratory birds in- 

 cluded in the terms of this Convention shall be as follows: — 



L Migratory Game Birds: — 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and 

 swans. 



(6) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping 

 cranes. 



(c) Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules and sora and other rails. 



(d) Limicolse or shorebirds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, god- 

 wits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, 

 surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. 



(e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. 



2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds: Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, 

 cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, mar- 

 tins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, 

 shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, 

 waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perch- 

 ing birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 



3. Other Migratory Nongame Birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, 

 gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, 

 puflSns, shearwaters, and terns. 



Article II 

 The High Contracting Powers agree that, as an effective means of 

 preserving migratory birds, there shall be established the following close 



