ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40 



(b) An open season for deer in the Townships of Amabel, 

 Albemarle, Eastnor, Lindsay and St. Edmund, in the County 

 of Bruce, extending from November 13th to November 18th, 

 both days inclusive. General deer hunting regulations were 

 in effect during this period, except that the use of dogs was 

 not permitted. 



(c) An open season for cock pheasants on Pelee Island, October 

 2 7th and 28th. Limit of five birds per day. Special municipal 

 hunting license $5.00. 



(d) An open season for cock pheasants in the various Township 

 Regulated Game Preserve Areas, and in the various Town- 

 ships in the County of Oxford, October 20th, 21st and 28th. 

 Limit of three birds per day. Special municipal hunting 

 license $1.00 per day. 



(e) An open season for cock pheasants, quail and Hungarian 

 partridge in the Counties of Essex (excluding Pelee Island) 

 and Kent, October 20th, 21st and 28th. Limit of three cock 

 pheasants, four quail and two Hungarian partridge per day. 



(f) An open season for partridge throughout the Province (ex- 

 cepting the Counties of Essex and Kent and the various Town- 

 ship Regulated Game Preserve Areas), — October 9th to 

 October 14th, both days inclusive, and November 6th to 

 November 11th, both days inclusive. Limit of five birds 

 per day, and not more than fifteen during the two periods 

 specified. 



(g) Prohibiting the hunting or shooting of any game on Pelee 

 Island during the period October 21st to October 26th, both 

 days inclusive. 



(h) Prohibiting the hunting of deer during the year. 19 39 in the 

 Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward, 

 and in concessions IX and X of the Township of Cambridge in 

 the County of Russell. 



FUR-BEARING ANIMALS 



Conditions as they apply to fur-bearing animals throughout the Province 

 are summarized in the following references from reports submitted to the Department 

 by members of the Field Service Staff: — 



BEAYER: — Conditions as they affected this species of splendid fur bearer fol- 

 lowing the period of complete protection which had prevailed for the past few years 

 were sufficiently satisfactory to warrant the provision of two short periods of open 

 season. The regulations which governed the taking of beaver during these periods 

 provided: — 



(a) An open season from March 25th to April 15th, 1939, ef- 

 fective in that part of Ontario north and west of the French 

 and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, (including the 

 District of Manitoulin) and in the Districts of Parry Sound, 

 Muskoka, and Nipissing (south of the Mattawa River) and 

 the Counties of Victoria, Haliburton, Hastings, Renfrew, 

 Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Lanark. Trappers were 

 authorized to take not more than ten beaver, and pelts so 

 taken were to be disposed of by them not later than ten days 

 after the termination of the open season. 



