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ONTARIO GAME AND FISH COMMISSION. 



QUESTIONS RELATING TO BIRDS. 



The answers to these questions have been grouped according to counties. 

 It has been thought advisable to do this on account of the diiference of 

 opinion expressed by the witnesses in different parts of the Province, regarding 

 the close and open seasons. Your Commissioners have found that the seasons 

 differ materially even in districts which closely adjoin each other, and it is 

 thought, therefore, that the following tables may prove a useful basis of en- 

 quiry for a permanent commission, in the event of the appointment of such a 

 body. 



N.B. — Question 15 and the answers thereto are worthy of special attention. 

 Those who answer in the affirmative think that much benefit would accrue from 

 a uniform season, and that many birds which are now shot out of season would 

 be spared if one common shooting season existed. 



Some of those who answer in the negative are evidently actuated by selfish 

 motives and wish to continue shooting at all times and in all seasons. 



Others again, allege that in the particular localities in which they reside, 

 much legitimate sport would be lost if the common shooting season was 

 established. 



It is pleasing to note, however, that the real sportsmen who have come before 

 your Commissioners to give evidence on this point have been invariably willing 

 to sacrifice much of their own shootinof in order that general good mio-ht result* 

 which they claim would be the case if a general short season for shooting was 

 adopted. 



