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3. The close season on other migratory nongame birds shall con- 

 tinue 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 

 in 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. 



Aeticle 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 establish- 

 ment 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 propagat- 

 ing 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 time 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 migratory birds_ transported, 

 or offered for transportation from the United States into the Do- 

 minion of Canada or from the Dominion of Canada into the United 

 States, shall have the name and address of the shipper and an accurate 

 statement of the contents clearly marked on the outside of such 

 package. 



