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retained. There is so much land privately owned around 
the lake, and the lake is of such size, that it can hardly be 
retained as a sanctuary complete. With the island reserved 
as a refuge, and some breeding-ground reserved along the 
shores, the main shore of the lake might be left open to 
shooting in season. 
Chaplin Lake, forty-five miles west of Moose Jaw, Sas- 
katchewan. A shallow lake; said to be drying up. The 
land surrounding it is not very good agricultural land. 
Quill Lakes, thirty miles southeast of Humboldt. There 
is good breeding-ground along the south side of Big Quill 
Lake, from the creek west of Dafoe east to the town of 
Kandahar. From Kandahar east and north along the east 
side of the lake to the beginning of the Narrows between 
Big Quill Lake (the west lake) and Little Quill Lake (the 
east lake) the land is not so suitable for wild fowl, and bet- 
ter for farming. The region about the Narrows and around 
the eastern and northern side of Little Quill Lake, and north 
and west of Big Quill Lake, seems to be attractive breeding- 
ground. 
Lake Lenore and Basin Lake, fifteen and twenty-five miles 
respectively north of Humboldt, Sask. Basin Lake has high, 
steep, timbered shores, and little lowland near the lake. 
Lake Lenore has better conditions surrounding it, but most 
of the wild fowl of the region breed in the numerous swamps 
and sloughs around Middle Lake (between Basin Lake and 
Lake Lenore). Lake Lenore seems to have some pretty 
good qualifications as a breeding-ground, and probably as 
a resting-place for fowl if the surrounding country is too 
much shot over. At present the district is not hunted ex- 
cept by local homesteaders, as it is too far from railroads, 
and there are plenty of ducks nearer the towns. 
Redberry Lake, forty miles northwest of Saskatoon. 
This is an attractive lake and should be naturally a good 
breeding-ground. The country all around the lake is fairly 
