Table 3—Trends In the breeding-population Index, 1957-64 
State 
1957 
1958 
1959 
i 960 
1961 
1962 
1963 
1964 
South Carolina 30.0 
31.6 
30.2 
32.0 
31.7 
28.5 
28.5 
29.9 
918 
967 
924 
979 
970 
872 
872 
915 
South Dakota 
74.3 
51.8 
47.0 
29 . 1 + 
35.5 
27.4 
29.7 
28.6 
5,459 
3,806 
3,453 
2,160 
2,608 
2,013 
2,180 
2,101 
Tennessee 
34.9 
31.7 
26.6 
27.0 
22.9 
26.4 
22.2 
21.1* 
1,1*61*. 
1,330 
1,116 
1,133 
961 
1,108 
931 
898 
Texas 
50.9 
50.3 
1 * 8.7 
51.1 
lu. 5 
43.3 
39-5 
38.8 
13,419 
13,261 
12,839 
13,472 
10 , 91*1 
ll,4i6 
10,1*11* 
10,229 
Utah 
43-5 
28.6 
43.5 
35.2 
28.0 
25.7 
25.5 
24.1* 
3,224 
2,120 
3,224 
2,609 
2,075 
1,904 
1,890 
1,808 
Vermont* 
1.0 
8.0 
0.0 
2.0 
2.0 
2.0 
Virginia 
32.2 
1*0.6 
43.2 
1 * 3.2 
1*0.6 
35.1 
35.7 
1*1.0 
1,221 
1,539 
1,637 
1,637 
1 539 
1,330 
1,353 
1,554 
Washington 
48.4 
42.4 
51-3 
35.3 
31.0 
36.9 
33.1 
44.3 
2,269 
1,988 
2,405 
1,655 
1,453 
1,730 
1,554 
2,077 
West Vrignia 
7-7 
3-4 
4.2 
10.9 
11.1* 
23.9 
10.1 
12.7 
130 
57 
71 
18 I* 
192 
403 
170 
214 
Wisconsin 
37-9 
34.3 
31.6 
36.0 
35.7 
25.0 
27.5 
29.7 
1,452 
1,314 
1,210 
1,379 
1,367 
958 
1,053 
1,138 
Wyoming 
30.9 
22.7 
26.4 
2l*.l 
28.3 
26.0 
21.1* 
16.6 
2,536 
1,863 
2,167 
1,978 
2,323 
2,134 
1,756 
1,363 
TOTAL INDEX 
96,118 
89,(374 
98,665 
104,115 
97,281 
87,390 
86,647 
93,472 
PERCENTAGE 
CHANGE 
48.8 
-7-3 
+10.8 
+ 5.9 
-6.6 
-10.2 
-O .85 
+ 7.9 
* Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont first established call-count 
routes in 1959* No estimate has been made of the square miles of dove habitat 
in these States. 
