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wings. It is the desire of the Fish and Wildlife Service to use this 

 brail in establishing flocks of geese in areas that they formerly in- 

 habited, but which they have abandoned owing to hunting pressure 

 and environmental changes. 



VISITORS 



Attendance at the Zoo this year reached a total of 3,998,546, an all- 

 time high record. In general this figure is based on estimates rather 

 than actual counts. 



Estimated number of visitors for fiscal year 1951 



July (1956) 548,950 



August 491, 300 



September 442, 700 



October 313, 900 



November 189, 400 



December 100, 800 



January (1957) 127,900 



February 206, 850 



March 315, 900 



April 403, 346 



May 468, 200 



June 389, 300 



Total 3, 998, 546 



Number of groups from schools 



Locality 



Alabama. 



California 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



District of Columbia 



Florida.. 



Georgia. 



Illinois 



Indiana.. 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Locality 



Mississippi 



Nebraska 



New Hampshire 



New Jersey. 



New York 



North Carolina.. 

 North Dakota... 



Ohio 



Pennsylvania 



South Carolina.. 



Tennessee 



Vermont 



Virginia 



West Virginia. . . 

 Wisconsin 



Total 



Number 



of 

 groups 



2 

 1 



20 

 120 



262 



4 



52 



259 



75 



63 



1 



567 



53 



2 



2,388 



Number 



in 

 groups 



204 



93 



45 



3,130 



6,154 



11,718 



28 



2,362 



14, 644 



2,589 



2,622 



35 



38, 266 



4,346 



167 



148,064 



Other groups, totaling 278 persons, visited the Zoo : two groups from 

 Japan, one from Germany, one from Canada, and three convention 

 groups from the United States. 



About 2 p. m. each day the cars then parked in the Zoo are counted 

 and listed according to the State, Territory, or country from which 

 they came. This is, of course, not a census of the cars coming to the 

 Zoo but is valuable in showing the percentage of attendance by States 

 of people in private automobiles. Many District of Columbia, Mary- 



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