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n MONS 070317 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES. SUNDAY. AUGUST 19. 1973 Pollution Suspected in Deforming of 39 Tern Chicks in L.I. Sound By JOHN C. DEVLIN !Fort M*chie. which lies in The History, on some of the ah- before we can definitely pin mother's weight breaks them, Thirty-nine .bnormal ttm&S normalcies, and since then has point just what pollutants are' but these researchers had not, chicks, including Kgs, have been one with four] discovered in Long Island shores. and Connecticut! been joined on weekends by [responsible for what deform- linked the p&ticidcs to deform Igroups traveling by bus from [Hies and what the cause-and- ities in living chicks. a colony of the gull-tike birds , Environmental pollution ac W eastern Long Island Sound: cording lo Miss Ha-ys ma--y s oon , la a three-year study by the resuit m 10 increase m the American Museum of Natural ?un,ber* human birth de-j History. ' Ifacts "as they work their way the Museum as Natural His effect relationships are. tory here to Noetic, Conn.,, 'It is important to point! where they board a chartered]lout." she and Dr. ftisebroughi boat for a weekepd visit to the wrote, "that although ail thl island. / evidence is not yet In and She said high priority should be given to a study of pollut ants in the waters of Long bland Sound such as have been undertaken for air pol Helen Hays of the Lmnaean "? t**?"*11 the ,ood chain to She said Long Island Sound weighed, what is happenig to lution, sewage in some water Society, an ornithology group u"',nat consumer." "b one of the more polluted the terns on Great Gull wand ways and with lead hazards , and chairman of the museum's ;s^ssrui amacommittee msking the study Ith* "iminin tcrns* ***** the Hy* tissues of *d. "wt| areas of the world's oceans, ai is of critical significance -- distinction it shares with the| not only to the local survival Baltic, the Mediterrean and the of the Medea, bat quite pos Southern California coastal sibly lo humans as welLM waters.** I Other researches have said She noted that PCB is ad'dad to paints, plastics end rubber to make them more re sistant to breakdown. srv'ir,?* ?* deformities in the **** These have a compounds, number of sh"e s*U*. chemical] 'Obviously,'' she said, "mudhj further reesarcb is necessary that egg pesticide shells to residues cause be so thin the YOU + KISH Alt FUND -- FUN F0 KIDS AT CAMP. wu (beaks or bills), no feath-jproperites similar to DDT n or missing primary or.which, with its derivatives, beaeconanr feathers, a musing(come concentrated in the fatryl rye. abnormal feet and legs, tissues of animals when pres-i -r and swollen bodies. Uni in a food chain, "but they Mis* Hays, Dr. Robert W. are even more stable.'' Rnebrough and a team of vol- Miss Hays, who is spending unteefi are conducting their most of the summer on the investigations on Great Gull jisland, first reported in the island, the sita of abandoned museum's publication. Natural