BIRD BANDING — CLEAVES. 



471 



Number 

 banded 

 in 1912. 



41 

 72 



7 

 21 

 28 

 10 



1 



145 



30 



21 



17 



2 



10 



19 



2 



3 



4 

 4 

 6 



8 



10 



5 



19 



Species. 



Meadowlark 



Western meadowlark 



Orchard oriole 



Brewer's blackbird 



Pmiile graekle 



House finch 



Chestnut-collared longspur 



Western Vesper sparrow 



House sparrow 



Savannah sparrow 



White-throated sparrow 



Chipping sparrow 



Field sparrow 



Song sparrow 



Slate-colored junco 



Towhee 



Cardinal 



Rosebreasted grosbeak 



Indigo bunting 



Dickcissel 



Scarlet tauager 



Purple martin 



Barn swallow 



Ked-eyed vireo 



Black and white warbler 



Yellow warbler 



Myrtle warbler 



Black-throated green warbler_ 



Louisiana water-thrush 



Catbird 



Brown thrasher 



Chickadee 



"Wood thrush 



Robin 



Western robin 



Bluebird 



Number 

 banded 

 in 1912. 



6 

 5 

 1 



18 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



20 

 1 

 6 

 4 



15 

 9 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 3 

 2 

 2 



species banded during the past season is 73, of which the following is 

 a summary: 



Species. 



Black Guillemot 



Great black-backed gull 



Herring gull 



Least tern 



Leach's petrel 



White ibis 



Glossy ibis 



Bittern 



A merican egret 



Snowy egret 



Louisiana heron 



Little blue heron 



Green heron 



Black-crowned night heron. 



Spotted sandpiper 



Killdeer 



Piping plover 



Mourning dove 



Marsh hawk 



Barn owl 



Short-eared owl 



Screech owl 



Yellow-billed cuckoo 



Yellow-bellied sajisucker 



Red-headed woodpecker 



Flicker 



Chimney swift 



Arkansas kingbird 



Great crested flycatcher 



Phoebe 



Olive-sided flycatcher 



Blue jay 



T^'estern crow 



FJobolink 



Cowbird 



Red -winged blaekbii'd 



Thick-bi lied redwing 



The activity of certiiiii of the banders in the field has been remark- 

 able and their observations often noteAvorthy. For instance, Mr. 

 Oscar E. Baynard, in charge of Bird Island in Orange Lake, Fla., 

 writes than in placing some 250 bands on white and glossy ibises, 

 egrets, and Louisiana black-crowned night and green herons it was 

 necessary for him to wade about up to his knees in soft mud and 

 guano while the temperature averaged 94° in the shade. Mr, Bay- 

 nard says further : 



I note a white ibis that I banded last year is nesting here this year, although 

 I can not determine the number. Have noted two long whites nesting here this 

 year that were here last year — one adult with deformed leg and a youngster 

 with a deformed foot. This last year's youngster has a nest of its own this 

 year and the old one has built in the same bush she used last year. Next year 

 T will probably be able to note a lot of banded birds returning here to nest. 



Mr. A. A. Saundei-s, of the Forest Service of Montana, is practi- 

 cally the only person doing any banding work in the West, but he 



49 

 3 

 1 



8 

 1 

 1 



9 



5 



4 



22 



12 



16 



