372 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



The Pheasant Record 



Section 96 of the Game Law provides that hunters in certain counties 

 therein named must file before November 30th a statement showing the 

 number of pheasants killed, together with the sex, and the town and county 

 where taken. The records made were very apparently inaccurate, but the 

 several county clerks reported in bulk as follows: 



Livingston . 

 Monroe . . . 

 Ontario. . . 

 Orleans. . . 

 Wayne. . . . 



Affidavits 



Birds 



filed 



killed 



179 



386 



473 



1,121 



686 



1,522 



60 



IO9 



493 



1,032 



1,891 



4,169 



If the newspapers of the several counties would publish a detailed 

 account of the reports filed with the county clerks, as was done by the 

 Livingston Democrat of Geneseo, the work of securing these statistics 

 would be much simplified. 



The Adirondack Animals 



So much interest was felt in the result of the deer hunting season this 

 year (1909) that the express companies were asked to be both expeditious 

 and more than ordinarily careful in their reports of shipments. Super- 

 intendent Van Valkenburgh for the American and Superintendent Colvin 

 for the National Express each gave the matter personal attention and 

 divided the shipments so as to show the number of bucks killed between 

 November 1st and 15th, the so-called " additional season " which was 

 added a year ago. The annual kill for ten years, and other figures of interest 

 to students of animal life follows: 



