10 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and 
the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Wash- 
ington on the 7th day of December. 1916 : 
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Woodbow Wilson, President of the United 
States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the 
end that the same and every artiele and clause thereof may be observed and 
fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of 
the United States to be affixed. 
Done at the city of AVashington this 8th day of December in the year of our 
Lord 1910, and of the independence of the United States of America the 141st. 
[SEAL.] WOODROW WlLSON. 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 
MIGRATORY-BIRD TREATY ACT 3 
[Approved July 3, 1918. 40 Stat. 755] 
An Act to give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for 
the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August 10, 1910, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That this act shall be known by the short 
title of the "Migratory Bird Treaty Act." 
Sec. 2. That unless and except as permitted by regulations made as herein- 
after provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, 
capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver 
for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for transportation, transport. 
cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried by any means whatever, 
receive for shipment, transportation or carriage, or export, at any time or in 
any manner, any migratory bird, included in the terms of the convention 
1 »etween the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory 
birds concluded August 16, 1916, or any part, nest, or egg of any such bird. 
Sec. 3. That, subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the purposes 
of the convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, from 
time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distri- 
bution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of 
migratory flight of such birds, to determine when, to what extent, if at all. 
and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the convention to allow 
hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, trans- 
portation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, 
and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in ac- 
cordance with such determinations, which regulations shall become effective 
when approved by the President. 
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by any means 
whatever, from one State, Territory, or District to or through another State. 
Territory, or District, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any 
part, nest, or egg thereof, c ptured. killed, taken, shipped, transported, or 
(anicd al any lime contrary to the laws of the State, Territory, or District in 
which it was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, trans- 
ported, or carried. It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest. 
Of egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried con- 
trary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the 
same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, 
or carried. 
•Constitutionality of the treaty and act of July 3. 1918, sustained by the United 
stnt ps Supreme Court in ;i decision rendered Apr. it). 1020, in the case of the state of 
Missouri r. Bay P. Holland (252 U. S. 41(5) ; see also CJ. S. v. Lumpkin (276 Fed. 580). 
Canada, by an acl of Parliamenl approved Aug. 29, 1917, gave full effect to the treaty 
and promulgated regulations thereunder May 11, litis. The validity of the act of the 
Dominion Parliament was upheld by the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island in a 
decision (Michaelmas term, 1920) rendered in the case of The King v. Russell C Clark. 
For full text of the Canadian migratory-bird trenty set and regulations, communicate with 
the Commissioner of Canadian National Parks, Ottawa, Ontario. 
