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The rate of wear of size S lock-type aluminium-alloy bands on dominican gulls is discussed. Rate of weight loss is constant and mean annual loss of weight per band is about 0.06 gms. (4.9% of the initial weight). Bands may start to fall off in the sixth year and there may be marked loss of bands by about the tenth year. Recovery rates after about the sixth year will therefore be biassed.