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the pliers this clincher is turned backward on the hand and 

 the inner clincher is brought down on it, thus completing the 

 process. A chicken showing the band changed to the wing is 

 seen in Fig. 21. In Fig. 22 is shown an adult hen with her 

 ■chick band in the wingf. 







If many pullets are to be kept it is often advisable to have 

 an adult band as well as the chick Land. For our purposes 

 these bands are placed on both legs of the bird as seen in Fig. 

 22. These pullet bands for each year are lettered with a dis- 

 tingushing letter for that year and are numerically consecu- 

 tive from one up. This means, of course, that a bird's adult 

 band number will not be the same as its chick band number 

 except by the rarest coincidence. 



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