Table 2. Trends in the Breeding-population Index, 1953-62 (cont'd) 

State 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 19% 
a 
Texas 29.7 35.7 43.1 4.2 50.9 50.3 %WB.7 51-2 H15 4B 
7,830 9,412 11,363 10,862 13,419 13,261 12,839 13,472 10, O41 un iid 
Utah no 88.3 42.4 36.0 43.5 28.6 43.5 35.2 28.0 25% 
index 6,544 3,142 2,816 3,224 2,120 3,224 2,609 2,075 1,90 
Vt ale 8.0 0.0 2.0 
Va. 13.2 16.0 18.2 22.2 32.2 40.6 43.2 43,2 40.6 35.1. 
500 606 690 841 1,221 1,539 1,637 1,637 1,539 1,3% 
Wash. 28.9 29.0 32.9 32.6 48. he. 51.3 35.3 31.0 36.9 
1,355 1,360 1,542 1,528 2,269 1,988 2,405 1,655 1,453 1,73) 
W.Va. 8.6 8.6 7.0 16.0 TT. 3.4 4.2 10.9 11.4 23 
145 145 118 270 130 57 71 184, 192 ia 
Wisc. 36.8 39.7 ye 4 4h 2 37.9 34.3 31.6 36.0 35.7 25,4 
1,409 1,521 1,624 1,693 1,452 1,314 1,210 1,379 1,367 950 
Wyo. no 5.6 T.5 ne 30.9 22.7 26.4 alia: 28.3 26, 
index 460 616 1,486 2,536 1,863 2,167 1,978 2,323 2,1% 

CHANGE +3.6 +10.2 +3.8 +8.8 -7.3 +10.8 +5.9 -6.6 -108 

* The 1953 index is incomplete because Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming did not conduct 
call-count surveys until 1954. The percentage change from 1953 to 1954 is based 
on comparable data only. 
*X Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont first established call-count 
routes in 1959. No estimate has been made of the square miles of dove habitat 
in these States. 
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