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BULLETIN 1049, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the big-game areas, the statistics thus obtained are the best available 

 for the Rocky Mountain States. 



About 1910 Louisiana inaugurated an elaborate system of collect- 

 ing figures from local wardens as to the number of each kind of game 

 killed in their districts, but these figures were never published in de- 

 tail and the totals were so large as to indicate that they were over- 

 estimates in some cases. Pennsylvania published the following com- 

 prehensive statement of the total amount of game killed in the State 

 in 1919 : 



Game killed in Pennsylvania, season of 1919. 



[Individual and total weights estimated.] 



Kind. 



Number. 



Individual Total 

 weight. weight. 



Male deer (legal) 1 



Rabbits 



Squirrels 



Raccoons 



Wild turkeys 



Ruffed grouse 



Ring-neck pheasants.. 



Virginia quail 



Hungarian partridges. 



Woodcock 



Wild waterfowl 



2,913 



472 



, 719, 879 



439, 106 



34, 036 



5,181 



287, 001 



15, 658 



46,319 



575 



27, 769 



28, 714 



Pounds. 



130 



200 



2 



1 



8 



12i 



i-i 

 3 

 I 

 I 



2 1 



Total I »7, 252, 048 



I ■ 



Pounds. 



378, 690 



94,400 



5, 439, 758 



439,106 



272, 288 



64,762 



430, 501 



46.974 



17,369 



359 



10,413 



57,428 



1 There were also 119 male fawns aud 207 does illegally killed during the season. 



2 Not including 23,786 shorebirds of various kinds nor 175,000 blackbirds killed. 



Minnesota in 1919 and 1920 required holders of hunting licenses 

 to make written reports to the commission within 30 days after the 

 expiration of the licenses, showing the kind and the number of birds 

 or animals taken thereunder. These returns have brought together 

 some interesting figures, which are summarized as follows: 



Game killed in Minnesota. 1919 and 1920} 



Kind of game. 



1919 



Deer: 



Bucks 



Does 



Fawns, male.. 

 Fawns, female. 



Total deer... 



8,877 

 5,183 

 2.756 

 1,470 



IS, 2S6 



1920 



9,612 

 5,028 

 2,520 

 1,412 



1S.o72 



Ducks, 17 species 1, 804, 900 



Geese, 4 species | 2,350 



1, 414, 889 

 1.880 



Kind of game. 



Other birds: 



Coots 



Rails 



Gallinules 



Jacksnipe 



Yellowlegs 



Quail 



Ruffed grouse. 

 Doves 



Total birds. 



191! 



290,500 



1,500 



500 



20, 000 



3,500 



6,100 



1920 



123, S89 



1,239 



349 



25,367 



1,918 



9,522 



501, 525 



3,413 



2,129,350 2,083,991 



1 Condensed from paper by Carlos Avery, Minnesota's game census : Fins, Feathers, and 

 Fur, No. 25, pp. 9-11, March, 1921. 



Virginia is the most recent State to undertake a survey of its game, 

 and through its department of game and inland fisheries has pub- 



