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2. A band of about 25 ranged near Agate, in Sioux County, in 1922. These 

 have existed in about the same numbers for the past 10 years. 



3. A band of about 5 was reported in 1922 about 10 miles west of Bushnell, 

 in Kimball County. 



4. A second band of 5 was reported in 1922 near the State line, south of 

 Kimball, in Kimball County. 



5. A band of 14 was reported in 1922 between Dix and Potter, on the border 

 between Kimball and Cheyenne Counties. Their numbers for some years have 

 remained about stationary. 



6. A band of about 40 was reported in 1922 as ranging about 18 miles south 

 of Sidney, in Cheyenne County. For some time this band has about held 

 its own. 



7. A band of 43 was reported in the spring of 1922 as grazing in fields' 

 near Sunol, in eastern Cheyenne County. The farmers complained of this 

 invasion of their wheat fields by antelope and requested information of the 

 Forest Service as to what might be done to control them. 



8. A band of 25 was reported in 1922 about 12 miles south of Lisco, Garden 

 County. This herd had about held its own for some time. 



9. A band of 8 was reported in March, 1924, about 15 miles north of Sargent, 

 in Loup County. 



10. Ten young antelope, 6 females and 4 males, were placed on the Niobrara 

 Game Reservation in September, 1924, by Doctor Brownell, of San Francisco, 

 and Doctor Hornaday, of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, in coopera- 

 tion with the Biological Survey. These antelope were part of the fawns cap- 

 tured in northwestern Nevada in the spring of 1924, as already detailed. 



NEVADA 



Formerly antelope were plentiful over all the Great Plains and deserts in 

 this State. They are now limited to about 11 comparatively small areas. In 

 the northern and northwestern parts of the State occur great areas sparsely 

 occupied by man, where conditions are still favorable to these animals. As a 

 result, some of the largest herds to be found in the West still survive there, 

 aggregating more than 4,200. 



Legal protection for antelope in Nevada has undergone some changes in the 

 past few years which it will be of interest to record. The close season for 

 antelope was lifted in Nevada by an act approved March 23, 1921 (amending 

 chapter 234 of the act of March 27, 1917, as amended by act approved March 

 4, 1921), providing as follows: 



" Sec. 42. It shall be unlawful to kill, catch, trap, wound, or pursue with the 

 intent to catch, capture, injure, or destroy any deer or antelope at any time 

 during the year other than during such 30-day period to be known as the open 

 season between September 15 and December 15 of each year as may herein- 

 after be designated for the respective counties by the boards of county commis- 

 sioners thereof under the provisions of section 50 of this act ; provided that 

 there shall never be any open season on deer without horns and that during 

 such open season of each year it shall be unlawful to kill, catch, trap, wound, 

 or pursue with the intent to catch, trap, injure, or destroy more than one deer 

 with horns and one antelope with horns ; and provided further that in all 

 counties in which no designation to the contrary shall have been made by the 

 county commissioners prior to the 1st day of August of any year, the open 

 season for deer with horns or antelope shall be from October 14 to November 

 12, both dates inclusive." 



An act approved March 21, 1923, restored antelope to the protected list until 

 1930, in the following terms : 



" Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful at all times to take any mountain sheep, goats, 

 elk, or antelope until January 1, 1930." 



After the opening of the season on antelope in Nevada in 1921 there was a 

 feeling among some of the county commissioners in the northern part of the 

 State that an open season was called for. E. R. Sans, predatory-animal 

 inspector of the Biological Survey, working with the Washoe County Game 



