8 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944) 



ties. This species is not native to the Province and such birds as do inhabit suitable 

 sections are the result of previous efforts on the part of the Department to establish 

 this species in Ontario. Hunting of Hungarian Partridge provided by regulation was 

 permitted only in the counties of Essex and Kent, on October 28th, 29th and 30th, 

 1943, with a bag limit of two (2) birds per day. 



PHEASANTS: — The general policy of restocking suitable cover with En^'lish ring- 

 necked pheasants was continued during the year under review, but an unfavour- 

 able condition on the breeding farms, much of which developed as a result of a 

 serious lack of experienced help due to the demands of more necessary war ser- 

 vices, was followed by reduced production and the consequent large decrease in the 

 number of birds which was made available for purchase by the Department for 

 this purpose. We are able to secure only a total of 7,404 pheasants to meet all our 

 demands for general distribution and as a result the Department was great.y handi- 

 capped in its efforts to continue the previous policy. Extreme care was essential in 

 the matter of allotting shipments as they became available, and while requirements 

 could not be completed in any instance, officials in the Department who were res- 

 ponsible for the distribution displayed such a measure of diligence and care in the 

 details of organization that most of the Regulated Township areas received some 

 birds, even though the total required was not produced. This condition quite natur- 

 ally made it necessary that there should be some curtailment in the open season 

 which was provided and generally only two days' shooting was allowed in these 

 Regulated Townships. 



Pheasants totalling 6,512 were distributed among the various townships in- 

 cluded in the scheme of Regulated Game Preserve Areas, 415 were liberated in the 

 county of Essex and a similar number in the county of Kent, while 2 5 of these birds 

 were placed in the Barkley Crown Game Preserve in the county of Dundas, and the 

 remaining 37 were made available to the St. Catharines Branch of the Ontario 

 Bird Dog Association. 



Details of the distribution in the Regulated Townships are as follows: — 

 County of Brant, (three townships, — Burford, South Dumfries and Onondaga), 180 

 birds; County of Elgin, (Five townships, — Aldborough, Bayham, Dorchester South, 

 Dunwich and Malahide), 168 birds, 48 of which were adult birds; County of Haldi- 

 mand, (eight townships, — Canboro, Dunn, Cayuga North, Cayuga South, Moulton, 

 Seneca, Sherbrooke and Walpole), 690 birds; County of Halton, (four townships, — 

 Esquesing, Nassagaweya, Nelson and Trafalgar), 495 birds; County of Lincoln, 

 (eight townships, — Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Grimsby North, Grimsby South, 

 Grantham, Louth and Niagara), 743 birds, 19 of which were adult birds; county of 

 Middlesex, (two townships, — Metcalfe and Westminster), 92 birds, 37 of which were 

 adult; County of Norfolk, (four townships, — Middleton, Townsend, Windham and 

 Walsingham), 285 birds; County of Ontario, (three townships, — Pickering, Whitby 

 East and Whitby West), 430 birds, 70 of which were adult birds; County of Oxford, 

 (two townships, — Dereham and East Oxford), 98 adult birds; County of Peel, 

 (five townships, — Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto and Toronto Gore), 540 

 birds; County of Prince Edward, (one township, — South Marysburgh), 41 birds; 

 County of Welland, (eight townships, — Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham, 

 Stamford, Thorold, Wainfleet and Willoughby), 894 Birds; County of Wellington, 

 (one township, — Puslinch), 105 birds. County of Wentworth, (eight townships, — 

 Ancaster, Barton, Beverly, Binbrook, Glanford, Flamboro East, Flamboro West and 

 Saltfleet), 675 Birds; County of York, (seven Townships, — East Gwillimbury, 

 North Gwillimbury, King, Markham, Scarborough, Vaughan and Whitchurch), 1076 

 birds, of which 359 were adult birds. Except as is otherwise indicated all birds 

 distributed were poults. 



Provisions of the Regulations which governed the open season for pheasants 

 were as follows: — 



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