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The detinite movement which has been set on foot by Professor 

 Leon J. Cole, of New Haven, Conn., for tagging birds is worthy of 

 more than passing mention. The aluminum strips used for tlie 

 tagging — small strips with a number and the words "Notify the 

 Auk, N. Y.," are to be bent around the tarsus of a bird, a careful 

 record kept of the birds so tagged, and this record finally returned 

 t'j I'rofessor Cole. So many of these tags are being attached to birds 

 thife summer that great hopes are entertained that many of the 

 birds bearing tags will be heard from. By this means it should bo 

 possible to determine with accuracy the wanderings of the birds. 

 It is only by some such means that individual birds may be surely 

 recognized. 



FIELD NOTES. 



Baikd's Sandpiper (Actoclrumas bairdii) in Wayne County, 

 Michigan. — In the Wilson Bulletin for December, 1908, on page 

 207, Mr. P. A. Taverner credits Mr. Albert Jones with taking a 

 Baird's Sandpiper on September 13. This bird was shot and iden- 

 tified by Mr. Walter C. Wood, who presented it to Mr. Jones. The 

 Baird's Sandpiper was anything but rare during the autumn of 1908. 

 I examined specimens taken on various dates by Walter C. Wood and 

 Herbert H. Spicer. Personally, I did not meet with it until August 



26, when I noted a flock of seventeen and took a specimen. From 

 that date they were present on all visits until last seen on September 



27. I secured my last birds September 23. These were all on the 

 nmd and water swale on P. C. 667, Ecorse Township, mentioned by 

 Mr. Taverner. J. Claire Wood. 



The Dickcissel in Wayne County, Mich. — In the Wilson Bulle- 

 tin for June, 1905, and March and June, 1907, I gave my local obser- 

 vations of the Dickcissel prior to 1907 and will now bring them up 

 to date. June 30 1907, I crossed the belt of open lands where the 

 greater number of Dlckcissels were seen the previous year. My at- 

 tention was directed to a male by his song and I took the time to 

 locate the nest. This was found by beating to and fro through the 

 weeds until the female flushed. It was well concealed and placed in 

 the thickest kind of weed growth about three feet above the ground 

 and contained two fresh eggs This was on P. C. 619, Grosse Pointe 

 Township. No more birds were seen, but when I returned to this 

 nest, July 7 three additional pairs were present. July 1 a male spent 

 much time singing from a telegraph wire by the roadside on Section 



