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jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs) ; provided that 
during such 10 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 
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 5 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 VII 
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. 
Article VIII 
The high contracting powers agree themselves to take, or propose to their 
respective appropriate law-making 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 Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as 
soon as possible, and the convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange 
of the ratifications. It shall remain in force for 15 years, and in the event of 
neither of the high contracting powers having given notification 12 • months 
before the expiration of said period of 15 years of its intention of terminating 
its operation, the convention shall continue to remain in force for 1 year and so- 
on from year to year. 
In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present con- 
vention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. 
Done at Washington this 16th day of August. 1916. 
[seal.] Robert Laxsixg. 
[seal.] Cecil Sprixg Rice. 
