Parowan Times | 1916-10-11 | Page 1 | Watch for Bands on Wild Ducks

watch for bands on wild ducks duck if IE you kill or capture a wild duck bearing an aluminum band around one I 1 leg ea g having a number on one aide bid and on the tha other a statement requesting that the U S depart merit ment of agriculture or the bialog test ical survey be notified you are am re quested to send this band at once to the bureau of biological survey IT S department of it tire washington D C tin thia band if accompanied compa nied by a statement as to the date place and circumstances circumstance under which the bird was taken will 11 b be of bernce rt ce to the survey so in its efforts to determine the longevity of individual ducks and the routes of 0 migration of the species th the bands band are being attached to considerable numbers of wild duek duck of several species which have been cured of the tha duck sickness p around great salt lake utah and there released the department is particularly brigitt anxious us to secure reports from these birds to determine their complete recovery from this malady inanity which has killed hundreds ot of thousands of ducks duck in utah