B, S. 23.]  SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
 
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 II. 
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,

carlew and all shorebirds (except the black-breasted an(] golden plover,
Wilson 
or jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs) ; provided,
that 
daring 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 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 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 Dominion of Canada into the United States or
from 
the United States into the Dominion of Canada, shall have the name and ad-

dress 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 con-

ditions, may become seriously injurious to the agricultural or other interests
in 
any particular community, may be issued by the proper authorities of tile
High 
Contracting Powers under suitable regulations prescribed therefor by them

respectively, but 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. 
 
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If 
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ed October 1, 
the follow- 
 
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Does not affect Arizona or New Mexico, 
*See also Par. 7, Secs. 8 and 16 (N. Mex.) and Par. 8, 
Sec. 5 (Ariz.) 
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