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tract birds. Beginners in bird study or bird students of wider experience 

 can learn much from the perusal of this authoritative monograph. Sold 

 by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Price 15 cents, postpaid. 

 Quantity rates on application. 



A BIRD BANDING ASSOCIATION 



Bird banding in America was begun by Audubon, who placed 

 silver threads about the legs of a brood of phoebes and was rewarded 

 the following season by having two of his birds return to nest in the 

 same vicinity. Active experimental work in modern methods of 

 bird banding was begun in the United States about twenty years ago and 

 has been carried on by various organizations since that time. Because 

 of the valuable information to be secured relative to the movements and 

 life histories of our migratory birds, especially the game and insectivorous 

 species, the work was taken over by the Biological Survey in 1920. It is 

 the plan of the Survey to advance this method of research along two prin- 

 cipal lines: First, by the banding of fledglings as formerly practiced; 

 and second, by the systematic trapping and banding of adults. A recent 

 lecture on this subject given under the auspices of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History by S. Prentiss Baldwin, of Cleveland, Ohio, aroused much 

 interest and a bird banding association has been proposed. Any one 

 caring to undertake this work and wilhng to join the association should 

 address Mr. L. B. Fletcher, 75 State Street, Boston, Mass. 



LIST OF LIFE MEMBERS RECEIVED FROM MAY 21st TO 

 SEPTEMBER 20th 



Cotton, Miss Elizabeth A 357 Kent St., Brookhne. 



Nichols, Charles J 263 Summer St., Boston 



LIST OF SUSTAINING MEMBERS RECEIVED FROM MAY 21st 

 TO SEPTEMBER 20th 



Cole, Miss Rosalie M 89 Robbins St., Waltham 



Cox, Dr. Stanley 12 Montgomery Ave., Holyoke 



Crane, E. Mildred Girl Scout Camp, Dunstable 



Crocker, Mrs. C. Frank 72 Green Acre Ave., Longmeadow 



Denison, Miss Rebecca L 42 Fletcher St., Winchester 



Denton, Lincoln 12 Reservoir St., Cambridge 



Erhard, Leonie N 94 Village Ave., Dedham 



Estabrook, Mrs. A. M 62 Winona Ave., Haverhill 



Farrington, Annie E 9 Fourth Ave., Haverhill 



Fogg, Miss Ada Odiorne Farmington, Maine 



Gardner, Miss Helen C 15 N. Main St., Attleboro 



Gates, Miss Catherine E 58 Kenwood Ave., Newton Ctre. 



Gilley, Miss Emma 129 Grasmere St., Newton 



Greene, Miss Jessie M 6 High Street, Amherst 



Hall, Miss Annie J 34 Fairmount St., Leominster 



Hayden, Mrs. J. W 14 Bowdoin St., Cambridge 



Hidden, Walter 51 Waterman St., Providence, R. I. 



HiUman, Howard L 30 Hawthorne St., Watertown 



Hillman, Mrs. H. L 30 Hawthorne St., Watertown 



Innes, Charles H 53 State St., Boston 



Johnson, Mrs. E. J Winchester 



Kellogg, H. J Turner's Falls 



King, Mrs. Stanley Sharon 



Kirby, Miss Helen G 81 Ivy St., Brookline 



Kite, Walter C 17 Russell St., Milton 



Larsson, Mrs. H. W 3848 Fourteenth Avenue., Oakland, Calif. 



Learned, Miss Agnes M Wilkins St., Hudson 



Lewis, Dr. Frederic T 538 Chestnut St., Waban 



