18 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
Title IV. — Administrative Provisions 
IMPORTATION OF WILD MAMMALS AND BIRDS IN VIOLATION OF FOREIGN LAW 
Seo. 527. (a) Importation prohibited.— U the laws or regulations of any 
country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government restrict the 
taking, killing, possession, or exportation to the United States of any wild 
mammal or bird, alive or dead, or restrict the exportation to the United States 
of any part or product of any wild mammal or bird, whether raw or manufac- 
tured, no such mammal or bird, or part or product tbereof, shall, alter the 
expiration of ninety days after the enactment of this Act. be imported into the 
United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of 
government, directly or indirectly, unless accompanied by a certification of the 
United States consul, for the consular district in which is located the port or 
place from which such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, was exported 
from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, 
that such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, has not been acquired 
or exported in violation of the laws or regulations of such country, dependency, 
province, or other subdivision of government. 
(&) Forfeiture. — Any mammal or bird, alive or dead, or any part or product 
thereof, whether raw or manufactured, imported into the United States in viola- 
tion of the provisions of the preceding subdivision shall be subject to seizure 
and forfeiture under the customs laws. Any such article so forfeited may, in 
the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury and under such regulations as he 
may prescribe, be placed with the departments or bureaus of the Federal or 
State Governments, or with societies or museums, for exhibition or scientific or 
educational purposes, or destroyed, or (except in the case of heads or horns of 
wild mammals) sold in the manner provided by law. 
(0) Section not to apply in certain cases. — The provisions of this section 
shall not apply in the case of — 
(1) Prohibited importations. — Articles the importation of which is prohibited 
under the provisions of this Act, or of section 241 of the Criminal Code, or of 
any other law ; 
(2) Scientific or educational purposes. — Wild mammals or birds, alive or 
dead, or parts or products thereof, whether raw or manufactured, imported 
for scientific or educational purposes; 
(3) Certain migratory game birds.— Migratory game birds (for which an 
open season is provided by the laws of the United States and any foreign 
country which is a party to a treaty with the United States, in effect on the 
date of importation, relating to the protection of such migratory game birds i 
brought into the United States by bona fide sportsmen returning from hunting 
trips in such country, if at the time of importation the possession of such 
birds is not prohibited by the laws of such country or of the United States. 
CANADIAN TARIFF ACT PROHIBITING IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE, 
MONGOOSES, AND CERTAIN BIRDS 
The importation of bird plumage into Canada for millinery purposes is 
prohibited by tariff item 1212 under Schedule C (prohibited goods), as added 
by section 5 of the Canadian customs tariff act of 1914. Item 1212 prohibits 
the entry of the following: 
1212. Aigrettes, egret plumes, or so-called osprey plumes, and the feathers, 
quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of skins of wild birds either raw or 
manufactured ; but this provision shall not come into effect until January 1, 
1915, and shall not apply to — 
(a) The feathers or plumes of ostriches; 
(b) The plumage of the English pheasant and the Indian peacock; 
(c) The plumage of wild birds ordinarily used as articles of diet; 
(d) The plumage of birds imported alive; nor to 
(e) Specimens Imported under regulations of the minister of customs for any 
natural-history or other museum or for educational purposes. 
Item 1214 under Schedule C (prohibited goods), as added by the customs 
tariff act, effective May 24, 1922, prohibits the entry of the following: 
1214. (a) Common mongoose (Herpestea .(/riscus) or mongoose of any kind; 
(b, v Commou mynah, Chinese mynah, crested mynah, or any other species of 
the starling family (Sturnidae) ; 
(o) Java sparrows, rice bird, nutmeg finch, or other species of the weaver 
bird family (Ploceidae) ; 
(d) European chaffinch (Fringilla coeleba) ; 
(e) Great titmouse (Paius major). 
