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THE GAME BREEDER 



THE TREATY WITH CANADA. 



Whereas many species of birds in the course of their annual migrations traverse certain 

 parts of the United btates and the Dominion of Canada; and 



.Whereas many of these species are of great value as a source of food or in destroying 

 insects which are injurious to forests and forage plants on the public domain, as well as to 

 agricultural crops, in both the United States and Canada, but are nevertheless in danger of 

 extermination through lack of adequate protection during the nesting season or while on their, 

 way to and from their breeding grounds ; 



The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India, 

 being desirous of saving from indiscriminate slaughter and of insuring the preservation of 

 such migratory birds as are either useful to man or are harmless, 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 pleni- 

 potentiaries : 



The President of the United States of America, Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the 

 United States ; and 



His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, G. C. V. O., 

 K. C. M. G.', etc., His Majesty's ambassador 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 : 



.*,M i: 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: 



(a) Anatidae of waterfowl, including brant, 

 wild ducks, geese and swans. 



(b) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown 

 sandhill, and whooping cranes. 



(c) Rallidse or rails, including coots, galli- 

 nules and sora and other rails. 



(d) Limicolae or shorebirds, including avo- 

 cets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oys- 

 ter catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, 

 snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, 

 woodcock, and yellowlegs. 



(e) Columbidse or pigeons, including doves 

 and wild pigeons. 



2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds : Bobo- 

 links, catbirds, chickadees, 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 perch- 

 ing 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 migra- 

 tory birds there shall be established the fol- 

 lowing close seasons during which no hunt- 

 ing shall be done except for scientific or prop- 

 agating purposes under permits issued by 

 proper authorities. 



1. The close season on migratory game birds 

 shall be between March 10 and September I, 

 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 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 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 insecti- 

 vorous birds shall continue throughout the 

 year. 



3. The close season on other migratory non- 

 game 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 follow- 

 ing 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 gol- 

 den plover, Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, 

 and the greater and lesser yellowlegs) ; pro- 

 vided that during such ten years the close 

 seasons on cranes, swans and curlew in the 

 Province of British Columbia shall be made 



