16 



BULLETIN 10^9, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



In 1921, owing to the opening of the season in North Dakota and 

 the protection of does in Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, Vermont, and the greater part of Washington, these 

 figures are changed as follows: No deer hunting in 14 States; does 

 protected in 23 States ; hunting bucks and does permitted in 11 States. 



Fifteen States — Maine, New York (except Long Island), Ohio, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

 Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon (except a 

 few counties) — during 1920 were closed to quail hunting also. (See 

 fig. 2.) This is partly due to the great reduction in the number of 

 birds, and partly to the fact that in the Northern States quail are 

 not present in sufficient numbers to permit them to be hunted. The 



177771 No hunt frig 



Hunting limited 



Fig. 2. — Quail hunting in 1920. The shaded portion shows the area in which hunting 

 was prohibited. In the 33 States with open seasons, the numbers indicate the daily 

 bag limits. 



open seasons on quail in 1920 in the 33 other States varied in length 

 from 10 days to 4 months. The daily bag limit on quail varied 

 from 4 to 25. Fifteen States had a bag limit of 12 or less and 15 

 States of 15 to 25. Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina appar- 

 ently had no State limits. In Tennessee the limit of 20 included 

 birds and small game of all kinds. 



It is not surprising that States like Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin. 

 North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, which are for the most part 

 outside the normal range of quail and in which the birds are likely 

 to be killed off during severe winters, should not be able to obtain 

 sufficient stock to allow general hunting, but it is remarkable that 

 States like Iowa. Nebraska, and Ohio, which formerly were in the 



