Figure 3 also shows the relative size of each unit's contri- 
bution of production to the hunting kill. The Eastern unit produces. 
doves which make up 29 percent of the total hunting kill of doves 
produced in the United States; comparable percentages for the 
Central and Western units are 44 percent and 27 percent. 
ORIGIN OF HUNTING KILL 
Origin of the hunting kill on a State and management-unit 
basis is shown in table 6 and figure 4. States such as Kentucky, 
Tennessee, Missouri, and Oregon each produce within the State 
89 to 100 percent of their hunting kill. These States, however, are 
harvesting within the State only 49 to 84 percent of Se total har - 
vested production of the State (table 5). | 
The pie diagrams in figure 4 emphasize the high percentage 
of the hunting kill that is composed of birds banded and shot in the 
same State. Contributions to the hunting kill by birds banded out- 
side the units where they were shot were small: 6 percent of the 
Eastern unit kill, 5 percent of the Central, and 4 percent of the 
Western. As an average for the three management units, 95 per- 
cent of a unit's hunting kill was produced inside the unit. 
Of the total hunting kill of doves produced in the United 
States, 30 percent was made in the Eastern unit, 33 percent in 
the Central unit, 25 percent in the Western unit, and 12 percent 
in Mexico and Central America. The 12 percent shot in Mexico 
and Central America was divided as follows: 18 percent from 
the Western unit, 81 percent from the Central, and 1 percent from 
the Eastern unit. 
BAND RECOVERY RATES 
Band recovery rates are shown in table 7, grouped according 
to hunting or non-hunting zones of the management units. Recovery 
rates in hunting States generally are more than twice as high as 
recovery rates in the non-hunting States. The variation in recovery 
rates is considerable between States within a management unit and 
hunting zone, Further study of banding records and an evaluation 
of band-reporting rates in various States is needed. 
Weighted band-recovery rates on a management-unit basis 
show that the Central unit recovery rate generally is lowest and the 
Eastern highest (table 8). If the assumptions of representative band- 
ing and a uniform band-reporting rate are valid, it must be concluded 
that hunting pressure is considerably greater in the Eastern unit than 
in the Central and that the Western unit is in an intermediate position. 
