ef 68 sample areas ene-quarter section in size and from correlating bre.i 
counts on transects with the number of pairs found during the spring coverage. 
Whereas the blue-wing made up from 25 te 40 percent of the breeding pairs 
censused in May, the breeds of this species amounted to from 35 to 65 percent 
ef all broods observed. The blue-wing was the only species to show a higher 
species composition during brood counts than on spring breeding ground surveys. 
In general, the Daketa regien showed an appreciable increase in breeding 
pairs over 1946 with an increase also in broods, although perhaps not in the 
same preportien. 
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