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TABLE 23 



(a) PHEASANT POPULATIONS AND KILLS ON AREAS OF FARM-SIZE OR LARGER 



(b) SAMPLES OF MAXIMUM PHEASANT POPULATIONS AND KILLS ON AREAS 

 OF LESS THAN FARM-SIZE 



Concentration areas (small) 



Northville, Wayne County, Michigan, careful census 

 showed 40 on 30 acres (Dalke) 



Licking River bottoms near Newark, Ohio, flushed 50 

 from 30 acres swamp (Harlow) 



Same region, twenty-one cocks killed 1 day from 10-acre 

 swamp (with allowances for infiltration), at least 



Racine County, Wisconsin, 60 wintered in 160-acre 

 swamp (Peterson) 



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The range of density of Hungarian populations is apparently similar to 

 that of quail, in that both tend to approach the same saturation point of one bird 

 per acre. The most frequent density would appear to be 4 to 8 acres per bird in 

 both species, but this is believed to be more apparent than real, in that my census 

 figures on Hungarians tend to show the densest rather than average run of 

 samples. Our actual Hungarian populations are thinner on the average than quail. 



