About 500 doves have been trapped and banded at various seasons, and this 
work is still in progress. Approximately 325 dove droppings have been collected 
for analysis, and a graduate student has made collections of food plants and their 
seeds to aid in identification of their contents. 
Fire ants have been reported as important enemies of the quail in several 
parts of the Southeastern States. A surv-y of their distribution in the: southern. 
half of Alebama was made to determine tneir possible effect on the quail population: 
No concentration was found in eny area sufficiently great for studies of their de- 
structiveness. 
A graduate student has collected a number of Quail-food plants and seeds to 
aid in determining the contents of queil crops, approximately 35 of which have al-— 
ready been collected with the cooperation of hunters and others. 
In an effort to find a favorable area for experimental and demonstration 
work with quail, many places were visited during the spring end summer. A suitable 
tract has recently been selected but no constructive operations have thus far been 
undertaken. 
An ecological study is being made of the deer on the Allison Lumber Company 
lands in western Alabama with a view to determining management practices. An in- 
tensive study has been made of deer killed by hunters in this area during the deer 
seasons of 1935 and 19365. Of 357 shot in 1935, 179 were found to have an average 
weight of 138 1/2 pounds, and of 98 shot in 1936 the averege weight was 132 1/2 - 
pounds. Observations ere being made by a graduate student on the antlers, size, 
parasites, and general condition of the deer taken. 
A preliminary survey has been mede of the availability of food for water- 
fowl at the Gulf State Park in southern Baldwin County. The State Department of 
Conservation has designated this area es a wildlife sanctuary, and has requested 
recommendations for its development. 
UTAH UNIT--LEADER APPOINTED NOVEMBER 1, 1935 
In pursuance of the project on the life history and management study of the 
Rocky Mountain mule deer, careful checks vere made during the winter of 1935-36 on 
the deer population of the Wasatch Game Preserve, which was determined to number 
approximately 1,870; on an adjacent winter-concentration area in Weber Canyon 2,300 
were counted. Detailed studies have been carried on of summer range, movements and 
migrations, competition with domestic livestock, and the relationship of total num- 
bers of the deer to hunting removal. All removal in the past 10 years has been 
limited end carefully supervised, thus quolifying the tract as a demonstration area. 
On the Cache Nationel Forest, studies have been made of winter mortality, 
concentrations, feeding habits, migrations, sex ratios, and other details of life 
history, and census methods applied. At three checking stations, 408 back deer 
were carefully weighed and measured during the 1l-day hunting season. Jaws of 
64 are being used in a study of age determination. Sex counts and field censuses 
have been continued on this area since the. hunt, and more than 1,600 deer have 
been observed. Animals on one area of 900 acres have been counted monthly since 
the study was inagurated. 
Experimental supplementary feeding is being conducted with prepared con- 
centrates supplied by an eastern manufacturer and with those commonly used by 
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