ass aan Cats in Coon Hunting 
e ounty ate No. Dogs Cats Treed Coons Remarks 
S. A. Obfield Sangamon ? ? 4 0 Cat weighed 
14 Lbs ° 
Geo, A. Dunlap * Average per evening 1 
s Max. " - 
id. Karraker Union 8) Never treed 
one 
Jack Wilson McHenry Average per evening 2 
Karracker's observation that he had never treed a cat in coon 
hunting is significant because this is a region in which there are some 
wild bobeats. It bears on the hypothesis, advanced in the Mississippi 
report, that bobcats may prey on housecats or their young. 
Foxes, Are protected by law all but 45 days. There is an active fox 
hunters association in the southern part of the state, which holds an 
annual meet at Ramsay. 
Both reds and grays occur in southern Illinois. Probably grays 
occur in Jo Daviess County. There ars a few grays near Freeport, Otherwse 
in so far as known, the red fox is the prevalent species. 
There is no exact information on the importance of foxes even in 
Georgia, where they are too rare to be a factor in quail. It is important 
to find out the extent of their depredations on quail. 
Crows. Forbes and Gross in August-October, 1906, found that there were 41 
erows per square mile between Danville and Quincy, and that they consti tuted 
7.1% of all birds (as compared with 1.4% for quail), As remarked unier 
quail, however, the greater visibility of the crow may have distorted this 
propor tion. 

