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(b) 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, do- 

 witchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, 

 sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, wood- 

 cock and yellowlegs. 



(e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild 

 pigeons. 



2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds: Bobolinks, catbirds, chicka- 

 dees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, king- 

 lets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks 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 follow- 

 ing close 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 

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

 colae 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 hunt- 

 ing 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 con- 

 tinue 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 



