(c.) Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora and other rails.

(d.) Limicolae or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellow legs.

(e.) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons.

2. Migratory insectivorous birds:

Bobolinks, catbirds, chickådees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, 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 non-game birds :

Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shearwaters, and terns.

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 the 10th March and 1st September, except that the close season on the limicolae or shore birds 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 the 1st February and 15th August, 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 throughout the year.

3. The close season on other migratory non-game 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.

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, curlew, and all shore birds (except the blackbreasted 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.

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.

V. The taking of nests or eggs of migratory game or insectivorous or non-game birds shall be prohibited, except for scientific or propagating purposes, under such laws or regulations as the High Contracting Powers may severally deem appropriate.

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 address of the shipper and an accurate statement of the contents clearly marked on the outside of such package.

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, but such permits shall lapse, or may be cancelled, 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.

VIII. The High Contracting 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.

IX. The present Convention shall be ratified by His Britannic Majesty and by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible, and the Convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It shall remain in force for [1916. cx]

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fifteen years, and in the event of neither of the High Contracting Powers having given notification, twelve months before the expiration of said period of fifteen years, of its intention of terminating its operation, the Convention shall continue to remain in force for one year, and so on from year to year.

In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals.

Done at Washington, this 16th day of August, 1916.

(L.S.) CECIL SPRING-RICE. (L.S.) ROBERT LANSING.

DECREE of the Government of the Argentine Republic extending the Neutrality Decree, August 5, 1914,* to the State of War between Germany and Portugal.Buenos Aires, March 14, 1916. †

(Translation.)

In view of the Note No. 29, dated the 10th instant, in which His Excellency the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal communicates to this Government that the Government of the Portuguese Republic received on the 9th instant from the Minister in Lisbon of the German Empire the Declaration of war by Germany on Portugal, and

In consideration of the principles of International order on which the Decree of the Argentine Government of the 5th August, 1914, was based, by which their neutrality was declared as long as the state of war in Europe lasted,

The President of the Argentine Nation decrees :

ART. I. Extend to the state of war between Germany and Portugal the Décree of the Argentine Government of August 5th, 1914, proclaiming their strictest neutrality while the said state of war lasts.

* Vol. CVIII, page 795.

† Similar Decrees of Neutrality were issued by the Argentine Government in respect of the State of War existing between the following belligerents :

Austria-Hungary and Italy, May 26, 1915, Vol. CIX, page 867.
Bulgaria and France, December 17, 1915.

Bulgaria and Great Britain, October 25, 1915, Vol. CIX
page 870.

Bulgaria and Italy, October 30, 1915.

Germany and Italy, August 31, 1916.

Italy and Turkey, August 27, 1915, Vol. CIX, page 867.

II. Communicate this to the Ministers concerned for the purpose of enforcing the provision of the said Decree, publish it in the "Boletin Oficial" (Official Gazette) and insert it in the National Register.

PLAZA.

JOSÉ LUIS MURATURE.

Buenos Aires, March 14, 1916.

AGREEMENT between the Argentine Republic and the Republic of Peru respecting the Legalisation of Signatures on Letters of Request.-Lima, February 10, 1910.

[Ratifications exchanged at Buenos Aires, December 31, 1918.] (Translation.)

HIS Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, Doctor Don Meliton F. Porras, and His Excellency the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic, Don Daniel Garcia Mansilla, having met at the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the object of simplifying the conditions set forth in Part II, Articles 3 and 4, of the Treaty concerning the Law of Procedure, agreed upon at the South American Congress on Private International Law, held at Montevideo on 11th January, 1889, in so far as they refer to the legislation of summonses, letters of request, and other documents originating in either of the two countries, and after having communicated to each other their full powers, which were found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following:

ART. I. Letters of Request in civil or criminal matters addressed by the Tribunals of the Argentine Republic to those of the Republic of Peru, or by those of the Republic of Peru to those of the Argentine Republic, shall not require the legalisation of the signatures to make them valid when they are transmitted through the Diplomatic Agents, or, in their absence, through the Consular Agents.

II. When Letters of Request are drawn up on the application of interested parties, the person shall be named therein who will be charged with the duty of dealing with the Authorities of the country to which they are directed, and who will pay the costs connected with them.

III. When Letters of Request are addressed officially the costs connected with them shall be borne by the Government of the country which received them.

IV. The present Agreement shall have an indefinite duration, but can be abrogated by either of the High Contracting Parties denouncing it with one year's notice.

V. The Exchange of Ratifications of this Agreement shall be made in the city of Buenos Aires as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries sign and seal it in duplicate in the city of Lima on the 10th day of February,

1910.

(L.S.) DANIEL GARCIA MANSILLA.
(L.S.) M. T. PORRAS.

CONVENTION between the Argentine Republic and the Republic of Paraguay respecting the Legalisation of Signatures on Letters of Request.-Asuncion, January 21,

ICIO.

[Ratifications exchanged at Buenos Aires, September 13, 1917.] (Translation.)

HIS Excellency Don Gabriel Martinez Campos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic, and His Excellency Don Manuel Gondra, Minister for Foreign Affairs, having met together in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the object of simplifying the requirements laid down in Part II of the Treaty of Law of Procedure, sanctioned at the South American Congress of Private International Law, held at Montevideo on the 11th January, 1889, in that part which refers to the legislation of Letters of Request, and after communicating to one another their full Powers, which were found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following:

ART. I. In default of the legalisation laid down in the Treaty of Montevideo for authenticating Commissions of Request in civil or criminal matters which are addressed to one another by the Tribunals of the contracting countries, it shall be sufficient that they are transmitted through Diplomatic Agents or, in their absence, through Consular Agents.

II. Commissions of Request drawn up on the application of an interested party shall state the name of the person empowered to represent him before the authorities to whom they are addressed and who shall pay the costs which are charged. Those which are addressed officially shall be at the cost of the Government applied to.