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(g) The Bandint Station: --A bandinc' station with BQ
at Sand Point should be started as soon as a suitable
man can be founld to o-erate it.

1946. (a)

Nesting Study:-A nesting study will be made in the
followin manor as soon as the waterlovel will
permiit:-mA Crew of G or 3 volunteers (Boy Scouts
or Fish and Game Protective Assoc. mebers) spread
out in a line earryinC 100ft, strands of telephone
wire between them will walk throurh the svaip
draging the wire overc the grass. A spotter
ooming bchind will identify th iducks flushed and
will locate and mark th nests. As largo a number
of nests as possible will be located In this mamer
aid by searchin th  ti-bered parts of the swamp.
These ne~sts will be c"ecked once a Week until t'y
hatch and the followinm data will be recorded at each.

1.
A.

3S cies.
No of egg;s.
0o. Qatched.

From which wil be deduced:-

1.
0.
".

"over type preferences by scs.
Lesting success by specios,
E*tent of predation by causes.

The value of the vario's types of vegettion as
nesting cover will be o puted by species usin
the following for.ula:--
% acerage/use     of nos in a cover ty-pe
9 acerage of the type
(b) Predation Study:-A study of predation on nests and
duckilings will be made by recording all nests
destroyed, by causes where possible, and by
exa. ination of as many pickerel sto. iaches as can be
obtained. The pickcral to be ncttedo hen the
d okling are small o         bc a      able to t is
form of predation.
(a) As in 1945,
(d) Data to be worked up in consutation .:itlro. Aldo
Leopold at the University of Wisconsi..
(e) Finding;s to be prepared as a working plan.
All of Vich is respectfully submitted.
B. S. Wri.
Manaer, Jlariti e;  Qnoboc.