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AGE-CRITERIA FOR COTTONTAIL 
Sentence Outline 
1. Game bird populations canbe classified for age by bursa, molts, but 
2. Cottontail cannot. Need a test applicable to 
(A) Parts hunters can send in. 
(B) Dead rabbits in bags. 
(C) Live rabbits from traps. 
Weights of lightest old and heaviest young overlap by hunting season. 
Gonads can't be seen in live rabbits. 
4* Epiphyseal cartilage tried.   Steps$ 
(A) Banded 100 young in summer. 
(B) Retrapped and shot in winter. Found that: 
oldest young lost cartilage in January. 
largest young in March. 
5. Deftetion: Satisfactory criterion through January of: 
(A) 5 men agree on 20 bones. Tried this on 
Frozen polished bones    Score 100% 
Stained wet bones          "    90 
Stained dry bones               70% 
6.  Summary. Frozen polished bone satisfactory up to January 15. 
Outline 
1. Need of criteria for mammals. 
26 Conditions criterion must meet.   Dead and live rabbits. 
3- Weights and gonads as criteria 
4 * Epiubyseal cartilage as criterion 
Procedure: marking young rabbits. 
Recovering marked rabbits. 
Dates dependable. 
5- Tests of cartilage criterion. 
6. S       .aryo