robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, 
titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax- 
wings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, 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, shearwaters, 
and terns. 
ARTICLE II 
The High Contracting Powers 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 of the 
season on the Limicolse or shorebirds in 
the Maritime Provinces of Canada and in 
those States of the United States bordering 
on the Atlantic Ocean which are situated 
wholly or in part north of Chesapeake 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 re¬ 
stricted to such period not exceeding three 
and one-half months as the High Con¬ 
tracting Powers may severally deem appro¬ 
priate and define by law or regulation. 
2. The close season on migratory insec¬ 
tivorous birds shall continue throughout 
the year. 
3. The close season on other migratory 
nongame birds shall continue throughout 
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 follow¬ 
ing 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, sand¬ 
hill and whooping cranes, swans, curlew and 
all shorebirds (except the black-breasted 
and golden plover, Wilson or jack snipe, 
woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellow- 
legs); 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 
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 
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 migratory birds 
or their eggs from any State or Province, 
during the continuance of the close season 
in such State or Province, shall be pro¬ 
hibited 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 migra¬ 
tory birds transported, or offered for trans¬ 
portation from the Dominion of Canada 
into the United States or from the United 
States into the Dominion of Canada, 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 condi¬ 
tions, may become seriously injurious to the 
agricultural or other interests in any parti¬ 
cular community, may be issued by the 
proper authorities of the High Contracting 
Powers under suitable regulations pre¬ 
scribed therefor by them respectively, but 
such permits shall lapse, or may be can¬ 
celled, 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. 
ARTICLE VIII 
The High Contracing Powers agree 
themselves to take, or propose to their 
respective appropriate law-making bodies, 
the necessary measures for insuring the 
execution of the present convention. 
It will be seen that the most 
important provision is Article II, 
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