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His Britannic Majesty, The Ri^ht Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur 

 Spring Rice, G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., etc., His Majesty's Ambassador 

 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington ; 



Wlio, 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 Powei-s declare that the migratory birds in- 

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



1. Migratory Game Birds : 



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

 and swans. 



(h) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and 

 whooping cranes. 



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

 other rails. 



(d) Limicolae or shorebirds, including avocets, curlew, dow- 

 itchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sand- 

 pipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock and 

 yellowlegs. 



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



2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds : 



Bobolinks, catbirds, chicadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, 

 grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, night- 

 hawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, 

 swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax-wings, 

 whippoorwills, woodpeckers and wrens, and all other perching 

 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, puffins, 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 seasons during which no hunting shall be done except for 

 scientific or propagating purposes imder permits issued by proper 

 authorities. 



1. The close season on migratory game birds shall be between 

 March 10 and September 1, except that the close season on the Limic- 

 olae 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 

 February 1 and August 15, 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 appro- 

 priate and define by law or regulation. 



2. The close season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue 

 throughout the year. 



