ABSTRACT 
An index to the 1962 mourning dove breeding population 
was obtained by a call-count survey conducted throughout 
the United States. ‘Trends in the breeding population 
index were calculated for three management units and 
for hunting and nonhunting States within the management 
units. Trends in the breeding population indexes from 
1961 to 1962 were as follows: Eastern Unit down 3 percent, 
Central Unit down 11.5 percent, and Western Unit down 12 
percent. For the United States as a whole, the 1962 
breeding population index is down 10 percent from 1961. 
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