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Regulated Game Preserve Areas the regulation which governed stipulated a bag 

 limit of three cock birds per day. It was further provided that the special township 

 hunting license was required by hunters in addition to the regular hunting license 

 demanded by the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act. 



(d) On Pelee Island on October 26th and 27th, 1914. The regulation in this 

 instance provided that "no person shall take, kill or have in possession such birds 

 (pheasants) in excess of five per day, two of which shall be hen birds"; and, as in 

 the case of the open seasons in the Regulated Township Areas, a special township 

 hunting license was required by hunters who participated in this open season on 

 Pelee Island. All hunting on Pelee Island was prohibited during the period from 

 October 19th to 25th, 1944, that is, during the week previous to the pheasant shoot. 



(e) In the counties of Essex and Kent on October 26th, 27th and 28th, 1944, 

 with a provision for a bag limit of three cock birds per day. 



QUAIL: — Conditions as they apply to this species are not favourable, nor does in- 

 formation regarding their prevalence indicate much improvement over previous 

 years. There are but few sections in which there is any evidence of their existence, 

 and they are generally speaking confined to the most southerly counties. The only 

 section in which an open season was provided was in the counties of Essex and 

 Kent, and in which counties the open season coincided with that which prevailed 

 with respect to pheasants, viz: — October 26th, 27th and 28th. The regulation in 

 effect provided a bag limit of four birds per day in the case of quail. 



DUCKS: — The various species of wild ducks which are available in Ontario during 

 the open season which occurs during the southerly migration of these birds in the 

 fall of the year were reported to be quite plentiful in many sections of the Province, 

 though there are some areas, particularly in Northern Ontario in which such fav- 

 ourable conditions do not prevail. The Hunting provided by this species of water- 

 fowl represents a substantial measure of enjoyment to the sportsman who is in- 

 terested in this division of our wild-life. The regulations which govern are provided 

 by the Federal Government under the provisions of the Migratory Birds Convention 

 Act. The complete protection of a close season throughout the year was continued 

 in the case of wood duck, while the hunting of eider duck was permitted, as in past 

 years, only north of the Quebec-Cochrane-Winnipeg line of the Canadian National 

 Railway from September 15th to November 15th. The only change in the regula- 

 tions which apply was in respect to the period of the open season which was ex- 

 tended five days throughout the Province, and in the northern division the season 

 closed on December 5th instead of November 30th as had been previously provided, 

 while in the southern division the season closed on December 15th instead of 

 December 10th. 



GEESE: — Favourable shooting conditions with respect to this species do not pre- 

 vail to any great extent in Ontario. Generally speak;ing such conditions exist only 

 in the extreme northerly portion of the Province, along the western shore of James 

 Bay, the southerly extension of Hudson's Bay, and in two or three counties in the 

 southwestern peninsula. They are obsei-ved in scattered areas during the periods 

 of migration, but in such cases they offer little or no attraction to hunters. 



The period of open season which is provided is similar to that which is in 

 effect in the case of ducks as is related in these comments on the last mentioned 

 species with the exception that in the counties of Essex, Kent and Elgin the open 

 season was from November 1st to January 10th, an extension of eight days over 

 the season which previously existed and which ended on January 2nd. 



