licensed to unlicensed trappers would have 
been about 1.00 to 1.50 instead of 1.00 by this report, we arrive at close approxi- 
to 1.27, as found after the oral survey 
ILLINoIs NATURAL History SURVEY BULLETIN 
This application to be sent each month with remittance to Department of © 
Conservation, Springfield 
To take Fur Bearing Animals 
License—Resident 
No. U 12101 
The undersigned hereby makes application for a license to take Fur Bearing animals, in the 
State of Illinois, pursuant to provisions of the Game Code, of Illinois, and being duly sworn, accord- 
ing to law, og oath says hat his, or her,nameis + 
yrs. Height 5-7 _ Veight___<_a3.2 Color of eves ee 
Distinctive marks 
nanan 
Age AM 
of hair. 
? 
Stree : City. 
Place of Binh of CUCL you a citizen of 
United States?__‘“é-2 Natural or teguit®ed-. 
If legalized give date, location, and name of court issuing final papers__._._.______ 
If applicant is a minor child of a naturalized citizen, date of final naturalization papers 
of his or her father, and the name and location of court which issued same are as follows: 
(Date) (Name and location of court) 
State number of following taken or killed during preceding year. 
ee he oe 
Mink Ze 
Raccoon £2 ttt 
CN eee 
Opossum __ C¢..._s_ LLLLU.LULULULULULULULlllLlLlllLCrcCc mC 
Maser a 
V ol. 22, Arta 
in Illinois, in each of the seasons covered 
mations of the total number. operating in 
Issuing Agent 
Fig. 3.—Application for Illinois fur-taker’s license for use in the 1937-38 season. The game 
codes of 1937 and 1939 specified that the applicant state the number of certain fur-bearing 
animals taken or killed by him the preceding year. 
was begun following the 1937 revision, 
and 1.00 to only 0.63, as found after the 
1939 revision. “The estimated numbers of 
unlicensed fur-takers for years of this 
study previous to the 1938-39 season are 
based on the ratio of 1.00 licensed fur- 
taker to 1.50 unlicensed fur-takers. 
By adding the known or calculated 
number of licensed fur-takers to the cal- 
culated number of unlicensed fur-takers 
those seasons, table 1 and fig. 2. Calcu- 
lations for the 1938-39 and 1939-40 sea- 
sons are based in part on data obtained 
by the oral survey. 
Calculations recorded in table 1 indi- 
cate that the lowest number of fur-takers 
operating in Illinois during any one sea- 
son covered by this report has not been less 
than 16,200 and that the average annual 
number has been 26,118. La Due (1935) 
