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State participation and survey effort in the 
experimental September teal hunting season, 1965 .... 19 
Numbers of teal permits issued to applicants, percent 
of hunters, and percent active hunters successful 
during the experimental September teal season, 1965 . . 20 
Days hunted and ducks bagged during the experimental 
September teal season, 1965 .*.21 
Daily hunting success statistics of hunters during 
the experimental September teal season, 1965 . 22 
Percent of days hunted each day of the experimental 
September teal season, 1965 . 23 
Percent of ducks bagged each day of the experimental 
September teal season, 1965 . 24 
Average duck bag per active hunter for each day of the 
experimental September teal season, 1965 .-25 
Estimated total retrieved duck kill in the Mississippi 
and Central Flyways during the experimental September 
teal season, 1965 .. 26 
Age ratios of teal bagged during the experimental 
September teal season, 1965 . 27 
Sex ratios of immature teal bagged during the 
experimental September teal season, 1965 .. 28 
Sex ratios of adult teal bagged during the experimental 
September teal season, 1965 .. 29 
Incidence of soft primaries in the wings of blue-winged 
teal bagged in the experimental September teal season, 
1965 . 30 
Estimates of the rate of crippling loss (unretrieved 
kill) and total hunting kill of teal during the 
experimental September teal season, 1965 . 31 
Estimated total kill of illegal ducks during the 
experimental September teal season, 1965 . 32 
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