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2. The close season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue through- 

 out the year. 



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

 out 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 on 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 Conven- 

 tion 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 propagating 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 Dominion 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. 



ARTICLE Vn. 



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

 conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agricultural 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 canceled, 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. 



