8 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
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 or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 
(6) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. 
(c) Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules and sora and other rails. 
(d) Limicolae or shorebirds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, 
knots, oyster catchers, phalaroi)es, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, 
turnstones. willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. 
(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 II 
The high contracting ix)wers agree that, as an effective means of preserving 
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 
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 insectivorous birds shall continue through- 
out the year. 
3. The close season on other migi'atory nongame birds shall continue through- 
out the year, except that Eskimos and Indians may take at any season auks, 
auklets, guillemots, murres, and puflSns. 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 10 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, cur- 
lew, and all shorebirds (except the black-breasted and gol(>en plover, Wilson or 
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 t;iking of nests or eggs of migratory game or insectivorous or nongame 
birds shall be prohibited, except for scientific or propagating purposes under 
