Banding black-backed gulls at Lake George, Yarmouth 

 County, Nova Scotia 



question had been marked 

 when about two weeks old 

 at Saint Clair Flats Canal, 

 Michigan on August 13, 

 1909, by Mr. S. A. Courtis. 

 By correspondence with Mr. 

 Salois it was learned that 

 the terns were apparently 

 not nesting at Whitebread, 

 Ontario, and it is not un- 

 likely that the birds seen 

 there had bred at Saint 

 Clair Flats and were indulg- 

 ing in a little roving after 

 the nesting season. How- 

 ever this may be, the facts 

 remain that the dead tern 

 had worn the aluminum 

 anklet for three years minus 

 eight days ; had likely made 

 three round trips to the 

 Gulf of Mexico or some 

 other place in the tropics to 



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shot at the fast 

 disappearing bird. 

 There were many 

 terns flying up and 

 down the stream, 

 hovering in the air 

 and plunging for 

 minnows, and it 

 seems strange that 

 the one shot should 

 have born a band 

 on its leg with the 

 number 4590. The 

 finding of that band 

 resulted in a letter 

 to New York from 

 the gunner, Mr. Leo 

 Salois. On referring 

 to 4590 among the 

 original banding rec- 

 ords it was found 

 that the bird in 



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Young black-backed gull wearing aluminum ring 

 which bears the inscription, "Notify American 

 Museum, New York '! 



