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  most 
  noteworthy 
  being 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  flicker 
  {Colaptes 
  a. 
  luteus) 
  

   banded 
  May 
  29, 
  1905, 
  at 
  Keota, 
  Iowa, 
  and 
  killed 
  the 
  following 
  Christ- 
  

   mas 
  Day 
  at 
  Many, 
  La. 
  Fragments 
  of 
  this 
  bird 
  are 
  preserved 
  in 
  the 
  

   Canadian 
  National 
  Museum 
  at 
  Ottawa, 
  Ontario. 
  Unfortunately 
  

   these 
  pioneer 
  experiments 
  did 
  not 
  receive 
  their 
  merited 
  attention, 
  

   and 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  1908 
  that 
  the 
  matter 
  was 
  again 
  revived, 
  this 
  

   time 
  by 
  the 
  New 
  Haven 
  (Conn.) 
  Bird 
  Club, 
  which 
  appointed 
  a 
  com- 
  

   mittee, 
  under 
  the 
  able 
  chairmanship 
  of 
  Doctor 
  Cole, 
  and 
  issued 
  to 
  

   such 
  of 
  their 
  membership 
  as 
  volunteered 
  for 
  the 
  work 
  both 
  open 
  and 
  

   seamless 
  bands 
  stamped 
  with 
  tlie 
  legend 
  "Box 
  Z, 
  Yale 
  Sta., 
  New 
  

   Haven, 
  Conn." 
  (PI. 
  1, 
  1.) 
  A 
  comparatively 
  small 
  number 
  of 
  these 
  

   bands 
  were 
  used 
  and 
  within 
  a 
  year 
  the 
  legend 
  was 
  changed 
  to 
  the 
  one 
  

   used 
  by 
  Taverner 
  ("Notify 
  The 
  Auk, 
  New 
  York"). 
  (PI. 
  1, 
  b.) 
  

   More 
  than 
  5,000 
  of 
  these 
  bands 
  were 
  distributed, 
  and 
  about 
  1,000 
  were 
  

   attached 
  to 
  birds 
  as 
  shown 
  by 
  Doctor 
  Cole's 
  report 
  before 
  the 
  meeting 
  

   of 
  the 
  American 
  Ornithologists' 
  Union 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  City 
  in 
  Decem- 
  

   ber, 
  1909, 
  printed 
  in 
  The 
  Auk 
  for 
  April, 
  1910. 
  It 
  also 
  Avas 
  during 
  this 
  

   period 
  that 
  the 
  experiments 
  of 
  Dr. 
  John 
  B. 
  Watson 
  were 
  carried 
  on 
  

   at 
  the 
  Tortugas 
  Reservation 
  in 
  Florida 
  (1909). 
  In 
  this 
  work, 
  paint 
  

   was 
  used 
  to 
  mark 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  noddy 
  and 
  sooty 
  terns 
  {An(yas 
  

   stolidus 
  and 
  Sterna 
  fuscata) 
  which 
  were 
  then 
  shipped 
  to 
  Galveston, 
  

   Tex., 
  and 
  to 
  Cape 
  Hatteras, 
  N. 
  C, 
  air-line 
  distances 
  of 
  between 
  800 
  

   and 
  900 
  miles, 
  from 
  which 
  points 
  the 
  marked 
  birds 
  returned 
  to 
  their 
  

   nests. 
  

  

  The 
  results 
  demonstrated 
  so 
  well 
  the 
  possibilities 
  of 
  such 
  activities 
  

   that 
  on 
  December 
  8, 
  1909, 
  an 
  organization 
  knoAvn 
  as 
  The 
  American 
  

   Bird 
  Banding 
  Association 
  was 
  formed. 
  The 
  legend 
  was 
  again 
  

   changed 
  and 
  the 
  bands 
  issued 
  by 
  the 
  new 
  association 
  bore 
  the 
  inscrip- 
  

   tion 
  "Notify 
  A. 
  M. 
  [= 
  American 
  Museum], 
  N. 
  Y." 
  (PI. 
  1, 
  c, 
  d.) 
  

   Under 
  the 
  guidance 
  of 
  this 
  organization, 
  and 
  particularly 
  through 
  

   the 
  interest 
  and 
  zeal 
  of 
  its 
  secretary, 
  Howard 
  H. 
  Cleaves, 
  bird-band- 
  

   ing 
  work 
  was 
  carried 
  on 
  until 
  1920, 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  taken 
  over 
  by 
  the 
  

   Bureau 
  of 
  Biological 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  

   Agriculture. 
  

  

  Previous 
  to 
  this, 
  Dr. 
  Alexander 
  Wetmore, 
  while 
  making 
  investiga- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  the 
  duck 
  sickness 
  at 
  the 
  Bear 
  River 
  marshes, 
  Utah 
  (1914 
  to 
  

   1916), 
  banded 
  about 
  1,000 
  ducks, 
  using 
  bands 
  that 
  carried 
  the 
  address 
  

   of 
  the 
  Biological 
  Survey. 
  These 
  were 
  the 
  first 
  bands 
  of 
  this 
  series. 
  

   (PI. 
  1, 
  f.) 
  The 
  report 
  by 
  Doctor 
  AVetmore 
  (1923) 
  of 
  the 
  174 
  returns 
  

   obtained 
  amply 
  demonstrated 
  the 
  possibilities 
  of 
  the 
  method 
  when 
  

   applied 
  to 
  migratory 
  waterfowl. 
  

  

  As 
  originally 
  practiced 
  the 
  banding 
  of 
  birds 
  was 
  used 
  solely 
  as 
  a 
  

   means 
  of 
  obtaining 
  information 
  pertaining 
  to 
  migration, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  

   certain 
  that 
  this 
  will 
  always 
  be 
  a 
  most 
  valued 
  phase 
  of 
  the 
  subject. 
  

  

  