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ONTARIO GAME AND FISH COMMISSION. 
QUESTIONS RELATING TO BIRDS. 
The answers to these questions have been grouped according to counties. 
It has been thought advisable to do this on account of the difference of 
opinion expressed by the witnesses in different parts of the Province, regarding 
the close and open seasons. Your Commissioners have found that the seasons 
differ materially even in districts which closely adjoin each other, and it is 
thought, therefore, that the following tables may prove a useful basis of en- 
quiry for a permanent commission, in the event of the appointment of such a 
body. 
N.B.—Question 15 and the answers thereto are worthy of special attention. 
Those who answer in the affirmative think that much benefit would accrue from 
a uniform season, and that many birds which are now shot out of season would 
be spared if one common shooting season existed. 
Some of those who answer in the negative are evidently actuated by selfish 
motives and wish to continue shooting at all times and in all seasons. | 
Others again, allege that in the particular localities in which they reside, 
much legitimate sport would be lost if the common shooting season was 
established. 
It is pleasing to note, however, that the real sportsmen who have come before 
your Commissioners to give evidence on this point have been invariably willing 
to sacrifice much of their own shooting in order that general good might result, 
which they claim would be the case if a general short season for shooting was 
alopted. 
