Questionnaire Survey showed less tendency for the kill to be con- 
centrated early in the season than did the wing collection. The 
greater proportion of early season responses in the wing collection 
may have been caused in part by hunters exhausting their envelope 
supply. There also may have been a tendency to send wings at a 
proportionally greater rate early in the season. 
It is possible also that responses to the Mail Questionnaire 
Survey were somewhat inaccurate, for in filling the questionnaire 
form from memory after the close of the season, hunters may have 
reported the kill as spread more evenly through the season than it 
actually wase This is suggested by the occurrence on the question- 
naire of kills indicated before and after the season. It seems 
likely that the Wing Collection and the Mail Questionnaire Survey 
both provide indexes of the kill pattern within the season, but that 
neither survey truly portrays the distribution of the actual kill. 
A third estimate of seasonal distribution of the kill will be available 
from band-recovery data when the banding records can again be used. 
Distribution by Days of The Week 
Index values representing the relative amount of the kill on 
each day of the week are presented in Table 1l. The values shown 
in the table for a particular day were computed by dividing the 
average kill for that day by the sum of the average kills for all 
seven days of the week. This method of computation was followed 
to compensate for some week days occurring more often in the season 
than others. Opening day was omitted from the calculations because 
the kill occurring then usually was large enough to increase greatly 
the average for that day regardless of its position within the week. 
In all States except Mississippi and Arkansas, the largest kill was 
on Saturday and the second largest kill was on Sunday. In Mississippi 
and Arkansas the largest kill was on Sunday and the second largest 
kill was on Saturday. Sunday was closed to hunting in Ohio and 
Indiana and the kill on Saturday was relatively greater than in 
States where both Saturday and Sunday were opene The data from Ohio 
also suggest that the kill on Monday increased slightly when Sunday 
was closede If Sunday is excluded from the calculations in Illinois 
and Michigan, the kill patterns throughout the week in these States 
become very similar to those in Ohio (Table 12). 
Distribution Through The Day 
The time of day the bird was killed was indicated on approximately 
88 per cent of the wing envelopes received. These served as the basis 
for Tables 13 and 14 which present the reported distribution of the 
kill within the day. To arrange this information in a comparable form 
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