. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of apparent advantagein or necessity for making the open season for the waders differentfrom that for ducks sufficient to compensate for this great disadvantage,and it would, therefore, seem most desirable that the open season forducks, plover, rail and snipe should be made coincident. Another migratory bird, llie numbers of which annually visiting tlieProvince have materially decreased,
. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of apparent advantagein or necessity for making the open season for the waders differentfrom that for ducks sufficient to compensate for this great disadvantage,and it would, therefore, seem most desirable that the open season forducks, plover, rail and snipe should be made coincident. Another migratory bird, llie numbers of which annually visiting tlieProvince have materially decreased, is the Panada goose. Probably iibird is more wild or more wary than the goose, and yet it is not to bedoubted that the main cause of the decreasing numbers of the bird inthe Province has been the reckless overshooting and slaughter that hastaken place whenever opportunity offered. As remarkable an illustra-tion, as perhaps could be found anywhere, of how wild fowl a]>preciatea measure of security and of the instinct that will guide them in increas-ing numbeiis to localities where it is accoi-dcd to tlicni, is furnished bythe experience of that genuine sportsman, Mr. Jack Miner, of Kingsville,. I 19 , I 1912 AND FISHEKIEH rOMMISSlON. 225 Ontario. Mr. Miner is no game-hog, and when in the spring of 1908eleven wild geese settled on a little pond in the vicinity of his house andjoined the flock of 16 tame birds that lived on it and on another littlepond immediately in front of his house, he refrained from disturbingthem and prevented others from doing so also. The birds soon becameaccustomed to their surroundings, and even though Mr. Miner subse-quently shot five of the eleven wild birds, the remainder came back andjoined the tame flock on the pond in front of the house, where theystayed until May 15th, when they migrated north. On March 20th,1909, 32 wild geese arrived and settled on these little exposed ponds,where they were accorded the same treatment as in the previous ye
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