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The Canadian Field-Naturalist 



[Vol. XXXIV. 



Charles Bent, Bayfield, New Brunswick, pos- 

 session of Sandpiper. Fine $10.00 and costs. 



James E. McDonald, Mira, Cape Breton Co., 

 Nova Scotia, killing Scoters from a power-boat. 

 Fine $10.00 and costs. 



Frank Wheeler, Dominion, Cape Breton Co., 

 Nova Scotia, possession one "Ring-necked Plover." 

 Fine $10.00. 



Robert Weaver, Doaktown, New Brunswick, in 

 possession Pileated Woodpecker. Fine $10.00 and 

 costs. 



Charles Grotto, Trenton, Nova Scotia, attempt- 

 ing to kill Greater Scaup Duck by use of power- 

 boat. Fine $10.00 and costs. 



Daniel Levy, Little Tancook, Lunenburg Co., 

 Nova Scotia, attempting to kill Black Duck by 

 the use of a motor-boat. Fine $20.00 and costs. 



Harvey Cross, Big Tancook Island, Lunenburg 

 Co., Nova Scotia, attempting to kill Black Ducks 

 by the use of a "Sunken Boat." Fine $20.00 and 

 costs. 



William Heizler, Oakland, Lunenburg Crun'y, 

 Nova Scotia, attempting to kill Ducks by the use 

 of a power-boat. Fine $20.00 and costs. 



William Murdock, New Glasgow, Nova Scctia, 

 attempting to kill Greater Scaup Duck by us; of 

 power-boat. Fine $10.00 and costs. 



Walter Winsloe, Trenton, Nova Scotia, attempt- 

 ing to kill Greater Scaup Duck by use cf power- 

 boat. Dismissed. 



Alexander Grotto, Trenton, Nova Scotia, at- 

 tempting to kill Greater Scaup Duck from a 

 power-boat. Dismissed. 



Northwest Game Act Prosecutions. 



W. F. Dow, Fort Rae, Northwest Territories, 

 possession two Musk Ox skins. Seizure. 



D'Arcy Arden, Dease River, Great Bear Lake, 

 Northwest Territories, possession Musk Ox skins. 

 Seizure. 



Bird banding work being taken over by the 



UNITED states BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

 The Bureau of Biological Survey at Washington, 

 D.C., has taken over the work formelly carried on 

 under the auspices of the Linnaean Society of New 

 York by the American Bird Banding Association. 

 In taking over this work the Bureau feels that it 

 should express the debt that students of ornithology 

 in this country owe to Mr. Howard H. Cleaves for 

 the devotion and success with which he has con- 

 ducted this investigation up to a point where it has 

 outgrown the possibilities of his personal supervision. 

 Under plans now being formulated this work will 

 give a great amount of invaluable information con- 

 cerning the migration and distribution of North 

 American birds which will be of direct service in 



the administration of the Migratory Bird Treaty 

 Act, as well as of much general scientific interest. 



It is desired to develop this work along two prin- 

 cipal lines; first, the trapping and banding of 

 waterfowl, especially ducks and geese, on both their 

 breedmg and winter grounds; and secondly, the 

 systematic trapping of land birds as initiated by 

 Mr. S. Prentiss Baldwin, the early results of which 

 have been published by him in the Proceedings of 

 the Linnaean Society of New York, No. 31, 1919, 

 pp. 23-55. It is planned to enlist the interest and 

 services of volunteer workers, who will undertake 

 to operate and mamtam trapping stations through- 

 out the year, banding new birds and recording the 

 data from those previously banded. The results 

 from a series of stations thus operated will un- 

 doubtedly give new insight into migration routes; 

 speed of travel during migration; longevity of 

 species; affinity for the same nesting-site year after 

 year; and, in addition, furnish a wealth of infor- 

 mation relative to the behavior of the individual, 

 heretcfcre impossible because of the difficulty of 

 keeping one particular bird under observation. 



The details of operation are now receiving close 

 attention, and as soon as possible the issue of bands 

 will b; anncunced, with full information regarding 

 the methods to be followed and the results expected. 

 In the meantime, the Biological Survey will be glad 

 to receive communications from those sufficiently in- 

 terested and satisfactorily located to engage in this 

 work during their leisure time, for it is obvious that 

 a considerable part must be done by volunteer op- 

 erators. It is hoped that a sufficient number will 

 take this up to insure the complete success of the 

 project. E. W. Nelson, Chief of Bureau. 



Migration studies by bird banding. The 

 work of bird-banding referred to above by Dr. E. 

 W. Nflson, which is now being taken over by the 

 U.S. Biological Survey, is a system of placing 

 registered numbered aluminum bands on the legs 

 of birds which are then liberated so if again taken 

 information may be derived on their lives, habits 

 and movements. The amount of exact informa- 

 tion that might be obtained in this and in no other 

 practical manner is very great indeed. For years 

 we have each had ideas as to whether birds re- 

 turned to their old haunts year after year, the 

 permanency of their matings, ages, routes of travel, 

 etc., but it was mostly guesswork and authorities 

 disagreed. Under the bird-banding association or- 

 ganized under Mr. Harold Cleves and others some 

 of these questions are in a fair way of exact solu- 

 tion. 



Our own Jack Miner, of wild goose fame, whilst 

 working independently of the bird-banding associ- 

 ation has done considerable in this direction witn 

 the wild fowl. His geese banded at Kingsville, 



