12 Maps, Charts, Tables, and Photographs 



NUMBER TITLE PAGE 



9. Temporary abundance of quail in the "irruptive" area 44 



10. Evidence on "migration" of quail 48 



11. Date and nature of the fall "shuffle" in quail 50 



12. Sex ratios of Indiana quail 52 



13. Quail sex ratio tally, seasons of 1929, 1930 53 



14. Limits of breeding seasons for quail J. 58 



15. History of coniferous shelterbelt plantings 71 



16. Risk of wet nesting seasons 82 



17. Frequency of losses, all causes 82 



18. Charges for quail shooting privileges 86 



19. Per cent of quail killed on tracts of known acreage and population 86 



20. Investment in exotics 100 



21. Pheasants planted in north central region 102 



22. Hungarian partridges planted in north central region 104 



23. Pheasant populations and kills 115 



24. Hungarian populations 116 



25. Elapsed time, pheasants 129 



.26. Charges for pheasant shooting 133 



27. Per cent mortality in ruffed grouse, Wisconsin 152 



28. Symptoms associated with mortality, ruffed grouse 154 



29. Temporary lows in relation to dates of permanent decline in prairie chickens 168 



30. Prairie chicken census 170 



31. Budding by pinnated grouse 177 



32. Roosting habits of pinnated grouse 178 



33. Size of winter packs 178 



34. Food of prairie chickens 181 



35. Symptoms association with mortality in prairie chickens 182 



36. Per cent mortality in prairie chickens 185 



37. Turkey census 190 



38. Status of turkey restoration 192 



39. Weights of wild turkeys 192 



40. Deer census 195 



41. Deer kill 195 



42. Composition of breeding populations 205 



43. Charges for duck shooting and duck lands 209 



44. Economic history of one acre of Illinois bottomland 210 



45. Distribution of refuges and clubs 210 



46. Composition of duck kill, Missouri River sandbar 211 



47. Composition of kill, Green Bay, Wisconsin 211 



48. Comparative composition of kill in various States 212 



49. Dates of first appearance and predominance of red foxes 220 



50. Fox populations 223 



51. Phenology of red fox; weights of reds and grays 226 



52. Cats' dens with young found away from buildings __ 227 



53. Financing of State game departments 234 



54. Status of game and fish law enforcement 240 



55. Posting in upper Michigan 251 



56. Summary of trespass laws 254 



57. Current game research projects 263 



58. Agricultural extension organization 265 



PHOTOGRAPHS 



1. Grazed vs. ungrazed woodlots 60 



2. Hedge in process of being pulled by tractor power 65 



3. Grazed and ungrazed sections of the same gully 88 



4. Progress of erosion in southwestern Wisconsin 248 



