Animals: Game Gossip

When the Department of Agriculture wonders about the habits of U. S. birds and animals it asks the Bureau of Biological Survey* to report. Chief of the Bureau is tall, spare Paul G. Redington, who spends his time traveling through the wild gamelands of the U. S. and Alaska. Last week at the 16th annual American Game Conference in Manhattan, Chief Redington told some 200 game commissioners and sportsmen about an experiment the Bureau had made to determine how far migratory wild birds fly each season. First, 100,000 birds were captured and numerically...

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