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He would again suggest that the meadow lark be placed on the game list, as 

 they belong to the quail family, and therefore should not come under the insectiv- 

 orous list. 



He has kept a vigilant watch over his district, and finds the laws are well 

 observed. 



Overseer Neil Sinclair, of Glenarm^ reports the closed season has been well 

 observed in his division, and there has been no illegal fishing done that he is aware 

 of. Bass and maskinonge have been more plentiful the earlier part of the season. 

 Towards the latter end the catch was not so good. 



Mink and muskrat are very scarce. There is no beaver in his division. 



Wild ducks are plentiful this fall. There are not so many wild geese light on 

 the lake. 



Partridge are not so plentiful this fall, he thinks on account of the wet season 

 this summer. 



There is no deer in* his district. 



Frogs are more numerous this season. 



Overseer Ira Toole, of Omemee, reports that the maskinonge fishing has been 

 good this summer in Pigeon Eiver. Bass were about as usual, but very few people 

 fish for them there, as they seem to prefer trolling for the lunge. 



As to winter fishing, he would like to say that, as there was a good supply of 

 maskinonge in those waters, the summer fishing still remained good, and perhaps 

 may last fairly good for a couple of seasons yet; but if there are not some restric- 

 tions to stop the winter fishing, viz., the snaring of maskinonge through the ice, 

 there is only one thing to expect — that the waters there will become depleted, as 

 they were once before by the same means. If there was a close season for maskin- 

 onge, say, from the 15th November until the 15th June, an overseer would have 

 some chance to stop the illegal fishing in the winter, but as the season stands at 

 the present time, the poacher has things pretty much his own way, as he is not 

 at all likely to convict himself, and in most of the cases which he has had to con- 

 tend with, it would be impossible to prove how the fish were caught, which is what 

 an overseer would have to do to make a conviction in any of the winter months, as 

 the season exists at the present time. 



Black ducks are not so plentiful this year, and very few fall ducks have got 

 that far south yet. Prom what he has seen, he thinks partridge are holding their 

 own pretty well, as there seem to be quite a number of them this fall. 



Mink are very scarce in that locality. Muskrat are holding their own fairly 

 well, considering the number of trappers that are after them every spring. The 

 catch was not quite so good last spring as usual in that district. But the trouble 

 lies in the fall trapping, as they are hard to protect at that season of the year, and 

 he thinks it impossible unless an overseer oould afford to stay on the water all the 

 time. 



Frogs seem scarce, considering there were none caught for the market this 

 summer, but as the water lias been unusually high, they may be back farther in the 

 marsh, where they cannot be seen. 



