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seasons on cranes, swans and curlew in the Province of British Co- 

 lumbia 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. 



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 propa- 

 gating purposes under such laws or regulations as the High Con- 

 tracting Powers may severally deem appropriate. 



Article VI. 



The High Contracting Powers agree that the shipment or ex- 

 port of migratory birds or their eggs from any State or Province, 

 during the continuance of the close season in such State or Prov- 

 ince, shall be prohibited except for scientific or propagating pur- 

 poses, 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 con- 

 taining migratory birds or any parts thereof or any eggs of migra- 

 tory birds transported, or offered for transportation from the Do- 

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

 into the Dominion of Canada, shall have the name and address of 

 the shipper and an accurate statement of the contents clearly 

 marked on the outside of such package. 



Article VII. 



Permits to kill any of the above-named birds which, under ex- 

 traordinary conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agri- 

 cultural or other interests in any particular community, may be 

 issued by the proper authorities of the High Contracting Powers 

 under suitable regulations prescribed therefor by them respectively, 

 but such permits shall lapse, or may be cancelled, at any time when, 

 in the opinion of said authorities, the particular exigency has passed, 

 and no birds killed under this article shall be shipped, sold, or 

 offered for sale. 



Article VIII. 



The High Contracting Powers agree themselves to take, or pro- 

 pose to their respective appropriate lawmaking bodies, the necessary 

 measures for insuring the execution of the present Convention. 



Article IX. 



The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the 

 United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Senate thereof, and by His Brittanic Majesty. The ratifications shall 



