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year, including 1 revision, were ready for editing preliminary to 

 publication. 



Publications issued during the year were as follows: Annual Re- 

 port of Chief of Bureau for 1921; Department Bulletin No. 1049, 

 Game as a National Resource; North American Fauna No. 45, A 

 'Biological Survey of Alabama: Part I, Physiography and Life 

 Zones; Part II. I'he Mammals; Farmers' Bulletins No. 1235, Game 

 Laws for 1921; No. 1238, Laws Relating to Fur-Bearing Animals, 

 1921; No. 1239, Community Bird Refuges (including one revised 

 edition) ; and No. 1247, American Moles as ^Agricultural Pests and 

 as Fur Producers; Department Circulars No, 196, Directory of 

 Officials and Organizations Concerned with the Protection of Birds 

 and Game, 1921; and No. 225, Annual Report of the Governor of 

 Alaska on the Alaska Game Law, 1921; Separates from the 1920 

 Yearbook : No. 836, Conserving Our Wild Animals and Birds ; No. 

 843, Farm Help from the Birds ; No. 845, Hunting Down the Stock 

 Killers; and No. 855, Death to the Rodents; Service and Regulatory 

 Announcements Nos. 42 to 46 (B. S.), containing the text of regu- 

 lations and orders affecting bird reservations and land fur-bearing 

 animals in Alaska; Poster No. 41 (Bi.), Open Seasons for Game, 

 1922: and revisions of the following: Department Bulletin No. 793, 

 Lead Poisoning in Waterfowl; and Farmers' Bulletins No. 525, 

 Raising Guinea Pigs; No. 621, How to Attract Birds in the North- 

 eastern United States; No. 912, How to Attract Birds in the East 

 Central States: and No. 1239, Community Bird Refuges, above 

 mentioned. 



Manuscripts in press or submitted to the Assistant Secretary and 

 not published at the close of the year v/ere as follows: Department 

 bulletins No. 1078, Beaver Habits^ Beaver Control, and Possibilities 

 in Beaver Farming: No. 1089, Reindeer in Alaska; and No. 1091, 

 Life History of the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys spectdbilh spectdbilis 

 Merriam: North American Fauna, No. 46, A Biological Survey of 

 Alabama : Part III, The Birds: No. 47. A Biological Survey of North 

 Dakota : Part I. Pliysiography and Life Zones, Part II, The Mam- 

 mals; No. 48, A Biological Survey of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska: 

 Part T. Birds and Mammals, Part' II, Insects, Arachnids, and Chilo- 

 pods; No. 49. ^Mammals of New Mexico; Farmers' Bulletin No. 1288, 

 Game Laws for 1922 : and revisions of the following farmers' bulle- 

 tins : No. 506, Food of Some Well-known Birds of Forest, Farm, and 

 Garden; No. 702, Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and Farm 

 Crops: and No. 844, How to Attract Birds in the Middle Atlantic 

 States. 



Manuscripts c(^mplc>ted during the year but not yet submitted for 

 publication were as follows : A -department bulletin on " The marsh 

 and aquatic plants of Missouri as wild-duck foods": a department 

 circular on "Experiments in the use of carbon tetrachlorid as an 

 anthelmintic for foxes"; a farmers' bulletin on "How to get rid of 

 rats": and a revised farmers' bulletin (No. 770) on "Canaries: Their 

 care and management." 



In addition, mpny items for the press and articles for outside 

 scientific periodicals have been prepared or authorized, and numeroi's 

 photographs have been selected from official negatives for th.e iiies^ 

 .'111(1 for individual writers. 



