Abstract
There has been a separate early open season on the Mourning Dove for the southern three counties of Florida (Monroe, Dade and Broward) for a number of years. During recent years the southern Florida season has been the month of October, while the season in the rest of the state has started about two months later. The original basis for dividing Florida with respect to the open season in this way was the fact that doves usually appeared in numbers in the extreme southern counties early in the fall and were abundant for only a short time. A belief has become prevalent that this early flight of doves in southern Florida originates in the West Indies and thus the doves that are shot in Monroe, Dade, and Broward Counties are from an entirely different breeding population from that hunted in counties to the north. This theory has continued to give support for a separate
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