Show allatch for bands on mild ducks if you kill or capture a wild duck bearing an aluminum band around one leg having a on one side and on the other a statement requesting that tl e U S department of agriculture or the biological sur vey be notified you are requested to send this band at once to the bureau of biological survey U S depart ment merit of agriculture washington D C this band if accompanied by a statement as to date place and cir cum cuni stances under which the birl wag was taken will be of service to the in its efforts to determine be jie longevity of individual ducks and the routes of migration of the cies cles the bands are being attached to considerable numbers of wild ducks 0 of several species which have been cured of the duck sickness pre valent around great salt lake utah and there released the de apartment part ment Is particularly anxious to secure reports from these birds to determine their complete recovery from this malady which has killed hundreds of thousands of ducks in utah |