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■ ii 

 J lickci 1 1 

 Scarlel Tana/ 1 1 

 Purple Martin 

 Bai ii Swallow 

 Red • ; ed Vireo 

 Black and White Wa 



Yellow \\ ;ii 1.1' i 



\l nli- Warbler 



Black throa ted( m en W arbler I 



The activity of certain of the banders in the field has been 

 remarkable and their observations often noteworthy. For in- 

 tance, Mr. Oscar E. Baynard, in charge of Bird Island in Orange 

 Lake, Florida, writes thai in placing lome two hundred and fifty 

 bands on White and Glossy Ibisc , Egrets, and Louisiana, Black- 

 crowned Might and Green Heron ii wb i necessary for him to wade 

 about up to lii i knee i in oft mud and guano while the temperature 

 averaged ninety-four degrees in the hade. Mr. Baynard says 

 further: 



" I note ;i White ll'i thai I banded la I year i ne ting here this 

 year, although I canned determine the number. Have noted two 

 long whites ne ting here this eaj thai \\<-r<- here la I year one 

 adull with deformed leg and ;i youngster with ;i deformed foot. 

 This la I year' young ter has a nesl of its own this year and the 

 old one ha buill in the same bu ih he u ed la ' year. Nexl year 

 I'll probably be able to note a lo1 ( >l banded birds returning here 

 to n< 



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

 cally the onlj per on doing anj banding work in the west, but he 

 i ;i lio i In him elf and loses no opportunity to pu1 his bands to 

 good use while ranging over his territory. In n letter dated June 



25, 1912, Mr. Sinni'l' i 



"I u;i, recently told of an incidenl of a marked bird returning 

 to the place where ii was born, and go1 as many of the facts us 

 po ible, a I believi they will be of interesl to the a ociation. 

 The incidenl was told me by Mr. E. A. Wood , a Fore I Ranger 

 on tin* Lewis and Clark National Fore t, and while tin information 



