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In contrast, 93 percent of 142 rabbits harvested on the Stephen A. Forbes State 
Park were juveniles; this is an unusually high proportion of juveniles. During 
the past five hunting seasons the proportions of juveniles in samples of rabbits 
from the Forbes Area have averaged 84 percent and the average date of birth of 
juveniles has been near June 1 in 4 of the 5 years. Apparently, rate of population 
turnover has been higher on the Forbes Area than on the Dale Area during 1 963 - 67 . 
This may have resulted from greater overwintering and hunting mortality, or qreater 
reproductive success, on the Forbes Area. 
Only 47 lenses were obtained from rabbits harvested on the McLean County 
Conservation Area. Forty-nine percent of the rabbits in this sample were juveniles, 
indicating that rate of turnover was unusually low in this unhunted population. 
