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much concerned as though this young 

 imposter were their own flesh and 

 blood. The male was particularly 

 demonstrative. He spread his wings 

 and fluttered them in great excitement, 

 in a little bush on the other side. They 

 did not flutter along the ground as 

 many birds do, but stayed in the weeds 

 and bushes. I could not be certain 

 whether their behavior was in the 

 nature of pretended injury or mere.y 

 an emotional fluttering intended to at- 

 tract attention. It was probably the 

 latter for the male held up his wings 

 in a very pretty and beseeching man- 

 ner. 



When 1 relep.sed the young Cowbird 

 it flew perhaps a hundred feet and tUt, 

 female Yellowthroat quickly followed 

 after it. The' Cowbird had received a 

 slight injury about the moutn and to:.- 

 of head which suggested that some 

 ether bird may have attacked it. 



Soon afterward, by dint of a strenu- 

 ous chase, I caught a young Yellow 

 throat, a pretty little fellow with its 

 tail just sprouting, which was much 

 like the adult female. This doubtless 

 belonged to other parents, and they 

 made less fuss about it than the fos- 

 ter parents had made for the young 

 Cowbird. 



A. D. Du Bois, 

 327 South Glenwood Ave., 



Springfield, 111. 



WORLD'S RECORD 



W. I. Lyon of Waukegan, 111., who 

 trapped and banded more than 1,000 

 birds in 1921, writes that he is anxi- 

 ous to secure more bird fans to take 

 up this interesting and valuable work 

 during 1922 So if you are a bird en- 

 thusiast, here is your chance to get 

 into a mighty fascinating game. 



Mr. Lyon's idea is to have a string 

 of bird banders on both sides of Lake 

 Michigan, and eventually to get work- 

 ers down the rivers to the southern 

 bird homes, also the Mississippi valley 

 and other Great Lakes flyways need 

 to be covered. Any responsible per- 

 son with some knowledge of birds can 

 do this work and Mr. Lyon wants to 

 hear from any such who are Interest- 

 ed. 



He has been telling us about a Fox 

 Sparrow that broke the trap record 

 this winter, when it should have been 

 down south with the rest of its rela- 

 tions. This Sparrow showed up and 

 was trapped in Waukegan on Nov. 12. 

 It came back again on Nov. 13, 14, 15 

 and 16. Then he was trapped twice a' 

 day, and sometimes three times a day, 

 until at the end of the month he had a 

 score of 33, evidently liking the res- 

 taurant of the bird banding station. 



The Sparrow stayed on, until by 

 March 17 he had been trapped 150 

 times — a record. 



Get a CATALOG 



Before they are 



All Gone 



(They are going hery fast.) 



OUTSIDE INSIDE 



I 54397, BIOL. SURV. I |WASH., D. C. | 



The above shows the marking on 

 the Fox Sparrow's band. Any person 

 finding a similar band should report it 

 at once with all information possible 

 to Biological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



