2 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL, SUEVEY. [S. R. A., 



Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of 

 saving from indiscriminate slaughter and of insuring the preserva- 

 tion of such migratory birds as are either useful to man or are harm- 

 less, 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 : 



The President of the United States "of America, Eobert Lansing, 

 Q .^ Secretary of State of the United States ; and 

 OVLV«!iLT>f jj^g Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur 

 \Arp Spring Eice, G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., etc.. His Majesty's Ambassador 

 r^ ^ Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington ; 



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 included in 

 the terms of this Convention shall be as follows : 



1. Migratory Game Birds: 



(o) Anatidae or waterfowl, Including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 

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



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



(d) Limicolae or shorebirds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, 

 knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, 

 turnstones, willet, woodcock and yollowlegs. 



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



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

 flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, 

 nighthawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, 

 tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax-wings, whippoorwills, wood- 

 peckers 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, shear- 

 waters, and terns. 



ARTICLE n. 



The High Contracting Powers agree that, as an efEective means of preserv- 

 ing migratory birds there shall be established the following 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 Limicolae or shorebirds in the 

 Maritime Provinces of Canada and in those States of the United States border- 

 ing on the Atlantic Ocean which are situated wholly or in part north of Chesa- 

 peake 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 

 Bhall 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 lavif or regulation. 



