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ing on the Atlantic Ocean which arc 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 
s'hall 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. 
:\. 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, cur- 
lew 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 thai 
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 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 migra- 
tory 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 trans- 
ported, 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 inter- 
