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jtained. There is so much land privately owned around 

 the lake, and the lake is of such size, that it can hardly be 

 retained as a sanctuary complete. With the island reserved 

 as a refuge, and some breeding-ground reserved along the 

 shores, the main shore of the lake might be left open to 

 shooting in season. 



Chaplin Lake, forty-five miles west of Moose Jaw, Sas- 

 katchewan. A shallow lake; said to be drying up. The 

 land surrounding it is not very good agricultural land. 



Quill Lakes, thirty miles southeast of Humboldt. There 

 is good breeding-ground along the south side of Big Quill 

 Lake, from the creek west of Dafoe east to the town of 

 Kandahar. From Kandahar east and north along the east 

 side of the lake to the beginning of the Narrows between 

 Big Quill Lake (the west lake) and Little Quill Lake (the 

 east lake) the land is not so suitable for wild fowl, and bet- 

 ter for farming. The region about the Narrows and around 

 the eastern and northern side of Little Quill Lake, and north 

 and west of Big Quill Lake, seems to be attractive breeding- 

 ground. 



Lake Lenore and Basin Lake, fifteen and twenty-five miles 

 respectively north of Humboldt, Sask. Basin Lake has high, 

 steep, timbered shores, and little lowland near the lake. 

 Lake Lenore has better conditions surrounding it, but most 

 of the wild fowl of the region breed in the numerous swamps 

 and sloughs around Middle Lake (between Basin Lake and 

 Lake Lenore). Lake Lenore seems to have some pretty 

 good qualifications as a breeding-ground, and probably as 

 a resting-place for fowl if the surrounding country is too 

 much shot over. At present the district is not hunted ex- 

 cept by local homesteaders, as it is too far from railroads, 

 and there are plenty of ducks nearer the towns. 



Redberry Lake, forty miles northwest of Saskatoon. 

 This is an attractive lake and should be naturally a good 

 breeding-ground. The country all around the lake is fairly 



