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nearest conclusive establishment is found 
gemon,Macoupin,and Green.The establishments 
ugh, and Jo Daviess counties are based on the reports 
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persons in each case and should be only tentatively ac- 
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ablishments,in. Champaign and Vermillion counties show lit- 
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and thin populations, probably due to lack of cover.There 
are probably good establishtiemts in the Kankakee region on which no data 
was obtained. The question marks in “Stephenson and Winnebago counties 
indicate @ condition similar to Champaien county,;only still weaker. 
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The pheasant is one of the most difficult of all birds to cover 
by census.This is because they do not form covies,have ea relatively wide 
cruising radius,and are often impossible to flush when they have taken 
refuge in swamp grass. Only one census was obtained: a farmer in Sanga- 
mon County kept careful watch on his birds and determined that he had 23 
on 160 (?) acres,or 1 per 7 dcres.This is probably en optimum figure for 
Sangamon County. 
An index to abundance which ts less satisfactory, but more easily 
© tained,is pheasants flushed per day in hunting.The following figures 
were obtained and have been arranged to represent progression from north- 
east to southwest .They probably represent optimum rather than average 

