Bird lore - Project Puffin

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary
Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to
the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City.
William Dutcher, President
Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary
Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer
Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney
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Birds and Animals:
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The treaty between the United States
and Canada for the protection of migratory
wild birds was ratified by the United
States Senate on August 29, 19 16, after
having been signed on August 16, 1916,
by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, and
Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador.
This, it is believed, is the first treaty deal-
ing with the fortunes of birds that has
ever been consummated. It covers the
principle of the McLean Federal Migratory
Bird Law, and its accomplishment
was brought about after two years of
continuoiis effort on the part of the bird-
conservationists in this country and in
Canada. Its final ratification by the
Senate was made possible in part by the
united labors of bird-lovers and sportsmen,
but more particularly by the earnest
and tactful efforts of Senator George P.
McLean, of Connecticut, who, as all men
know, is America's great bird-friend in the
United States Senate. There yet remains
the formality of sending the treaty to
England for ratification by the king, and
its return for exchange of ratifications.
Congress will then pass an enabling act
for the enforcement of its provisions and
the work will be complete. No opposition
THE TREATY WINS
(346)
is expected to the accomplishment of
these final details.
Space is here given to the full text of
this treaty in order that the readers of
Bird-Lore may have the opportunity of
reading the exact language of this important
document.
Treaty for the Protection of Migratory
Birds in the United States and Canada
Whereas many species of birds in the
course of their annual migrations traverse
certain parts of the United States and the
Dominion of Canada; and
Whereas many of these species are of
great value as a source of food or in
destroying insects which are injurious to
forests and forage plants on the public
domain, as well as to agricultural crops, in
both the United States and Canada, but
are nevertheless in danger of extermina-
tion through lack of adequate protection
during the nesting-season or while on their
way to and from the breeding-grounds;
The United States of America and His
Majesty the King of Great Britain and
Ireland and of the British dominions
beyond the seas, Emperor of India, being