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       August will be fine for your visit to Delta and we 
are gld to know that it will be for more than a week. *ard 
does not think the a shooting season vistt would be out-of- 
plece, and if Miles chooses to come then it will be all 
right. Few deepwater broods are more than a week old now 
and you will probably be here in time for some banding of 
young. 
 
       We have started to release the first pintails and 
mallards this week. I believe that Lyle told you that the 
sex ratios of the casulties ran rather heavily towards males. 
In pintalls the sex ratio of P-l birds we have examined 
so far, including the first releases, was 61 male~to 39 
females.with 128 birds. 
                         Yours sincerely,