BIRD BANDING CLEAVES. 



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12. Red-winged Blackbird. Agelaius phcenicetis phoeniceus. 



Banded at Quonoclioutaug, Charles- 

 town, R. I., by Harry S. Hathaway. 



June 8, 1912. 



Fledgling ; " caught with the hands 

 and when released alighted on a 

 cat-tail."— H. S. H. 



6261. Phcebe. Sayornis phocbe. 



Banded at Meriden, Sullivan Co., 

 N. H., by Ernest Harold Baynes. 



June 6, 1912. 



Adult, nest in old house in Corbin 

 Park. 



Recovered at Green Pond, Colleton 

 Co., S. C, by Thomas Grant. 



November 2, 1912. 



Shot by a "bird minder." ("A 

 small blackbird known as the red- 

 winged blackbird, in the fall very 

 destructive to rice.") — D. J. Chap- 

 lin, owner of plantation. 



Recovered at Meriden, N. H., by 

 Mrs. Ernest Harold Baynes. 



July 14, 1912. 



Found dead beneath nest ; " could 

 assign no cause for death. As 

 far as I could see the presence 

 of the band had had nothing to 

 do with the case. The bird had 

 laid one egg of the second set." — 

 E. H. B. 



Explanation of plates. 



Plate 1. 



Fig. 1. Banding young black-backed gulls (Larus marinus) in the Lake 

 George, Nova Scotia, Colony, July 25, 1912. Photograph by G. K. Noble. 

 Fig. 2. Banded young black-backed gull, Lake George, Nova Scotia, 1912. 



Plate 2. 



Fig. 1. Two young mourning doves (Zenaidura macroura carolinensis) banded 

 at Staten Island, N. Y. City, May, 1912. Game birds or others shot for food are 

 most likely to produce return records. 



Fig. 2. Chimney swift (Chwtura pelagica) banded at Meriden, N. H., in June, 

 1911, and returned, after wintering in the tropics, to his old chimney in New 

 Hampshire, June, 1912. Photograph by Ernest Harold Baynes. 



Fig. 3. Old barn owl {Aluco pratincola) and her five young banded at Staten 

 Island, N. Y. City, June, 1912. Only one pair of these birds is known to nest 

 each year on the island, and banding is likely to cast light on the problem of 

 dispersal of the young. 



