10 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
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 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 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 golden 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 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, hut 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. 
