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Turkey may indeed be said to be totally cleaned out south of 

 the Mogollon Rim. 



"White-tailed deer are holding out better. Like the rab- 

 bit, they live in the dense brush and survive by hiding out. 

 Quail are doing well except near the larger towns, where they 

 are getting thinned out." 



Nov. 1. — During nearly twenty years of protection the beaver and 

 otter of the Province of Ontario, Canada, increased to such an 

 extent that the provincial government found it desirable to 

 resume commercial trapping, from November 1 to March 1. 

 The government wisely exercises strict control over the num- 

 ber that may be taken, by the issue of royalty permit coupons 

 at 5 cents each, and limiting the number that may be issued. 

 An Indian duly provided with royalty permit coupons may take 

 10 pelts either of otter or beaver, and a white man may take 

 only 10 beaver or 5 otter. Pelts are salable only to licensed 

 fur dealers, in the Province. 



Thus has Ontario practically developed the principle on 

 which all killing of protected animals, after long closed sea- 

 sons, should be based, — a strict limitation of the annual num- 

 ber that may be taken. 



Nov. 7. — Four new game protective associations have been formed 

 in Arizona. Many improvements in the game laws were voted 

 upon by the people at the general election, and carried by a 

 large majority, against the opposition of the old Arizona 

 Sportsmen's Association. A buck law was enacted, and the 

 bag limit on deer was reduced to one per year. 



Dec. 2. — The news reached New York from London that the King 

 of England had signed the treaty between Canada and the 

 United States for the protection of migratory birds, and that 

 the treaty was then at the British Embassy, in Washington. 



Dec. 6. — The final ratifications of the migratory bird treaty were 

 exchanged, in Washington. 



Dec. 10. — Two professional market hunters of wildfowl in Louisi- 

 ana, John Cognerich and E. L. Rhodes, published a statement 

 in the New Orleans Picayune in which they estimate the num- 

 ber of professional market hunters in Louisiana at between 8 00 

 and 1,0 00! They protest against being put out of business by 

 any new laws, and vehemently protest against any and all in- 

 terference with their present privilege to slaughter game for 

 profit. 



Dec. 2 8. — The Canadian government, by an order in council, ap- 

 pointed an Interdepartmental Advisory Board on Wild Life 

 Protection, consisting of James White, Assistant to the Chair- 

 man of the Commission on Conservation; Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 Dominion Entomologist; D. C. Scott, Deputy Superintendent 

 General of Indian Affairs; Dr. R. M. Anderson, Geological Sur- 

 vey, and J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of Dominion Parks. Mr. 

 White is Chairman of the Board and Dr. Hewitt is Secretary, 

 and these officers also represent the government on the Per- 

 manent Consultative Commission for the International Protec- 

 tion of Nature. 



