DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942) 



Island, and in the County of Kent, and in which Counties provision lias also been made 

 for the distribution of these birds. Details of this distribution which was made in 

 1940 are indicated by the following statistics: — adult pheasants and poults totalling 

 16,688 were distributed, 14,963 in the Regulated Townships and 1,725 for general re- 

 stocking outside of these areas, — County of Brant (three Townships) 664 birds; County 

 of Elgin (five Townships) 1,000 birds; County of Haldimand (ten Townships) 1,862 

 birds; County of Halton (four Townships) 1,315 birds; County of Lambton (one 

 Township) 200 birds; County of Lincoln (eight Townships) 1,650 birds; County of 

 Middlesex (two Townships) 425 birds; County of Norfolk (four Townships) 820 birds; 

 County of Ontario (three Townships) 750 birds; County of Oxford (one Township) 200 

 birds; County of Peel (five Townships) 940 birds; County of Prince Edward (one 

 Township) 120 birds; County of Welland (eight Townships) 1,685 birds; County of 

 Wellington (one Township) 200 birds; County of Wentworth (eight Townships) 1,459 

 birds; and County of York (seven Townships) 1,673 birds. The record of the general 

 re-stocking additional to the foregoing shows 1,000 birds liberated in the County of 

 Essex, 400 of which were placed on Pelee Island, 600 birds in the County of Kent, 

 75 birds in the County of Huron and 50 birds in the County of Brant. The regulations 

 governing the open season fixed October 31st and November 1st on Pelee Island, with 

 a limit of five birds per day, or ten for the season, with the provision that three of 

 the total take could be hen birds conditional upon the payment of $1.00 each for such 

 hens. In the Regulated Game Preserve Areas the open season was October 25th and 

 26th, and an additional day, November 1st, provided the Municipal authorities in any 

 Township issued their special hunting licenses therefor. In fifty-two Townships the 

 two-day season prevailed, while the three-day season was in effect in nineteen Town- 

 ships. Limits of catch were three cock birds per day. The same three-day open 

 season was provided for the County of Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and the County 

 of Kent, as well as the limit of three cock birds per day. 



HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE:— The efforts of the Department to secure the establish- 

 ment of this species in the Province have up to the present not been very successful, 

 except in a few areas. The only localities in which they are found to any extent are 

 in a few of the southwestern and extreme eastern counties, and even in these areas 

 their numbers are not too plentiful. Improvement is reported only from the eastern 

 counties. The open season in 1940, viz, October 25th and 26th and November 1st 

 applied only in Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and Kent. Two birds per day 

 constituted the limit of catch. 



QUAIL: — Only in a few of the most extreme southwesterly counties are these birds to 

 be found where they are not very numerous, though localized increases have been 

 reported. The only section in which an open season was provided was in the County 

 of Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and the County of Kent, on October 25th and 26th 

 and November 1st. The bag limit during this open season was four birds per day. 



DUCKS: — Reports from many sections, particularly in Southern Ontario, would seem 

 to indicate some considerable improvement in the number and variety of ducks avail- 

 able during the open season, which generally resulted in a successful season for a 

 majority of those sportsmen who participate in the hunting thus provided. Since 1935 

 the hunting regulations which are provided by the Federal authorities under the 

 Migratory Birds Convention Act, have been made more restrictive and an active pro- 

 gramme to provide refuges and improved nesting conditions in the far north has been 

 carried on, all of which factors have contributed to the increase previously mentioned, 

 and provided there is no natural set-back should continue to prove effective in 

 maintaining and possibly improving the existing conditions as they apply to this variety 

 of wild water-fowl. 



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