!_!.)'_ Cleaves, American Bird Banding Association. I April 



comes second hand, 1 believe it is correct. A lady living near 

 Mountain View, Alberta, just north of the United States boundary . 

 found the nest of a Canada Goose and hatched out tin- eggs under 

 a lion. The young geese lived in the barnyard that summer, and 

 one was marked, by fastening a bell around its nock. In the fall, 

 when a Hook of migrating geese flow oxer, the geese left the barn- 

 yard, and joined this hook. Two years later, in the spring, the 

 goose wearing the hell returned and stopped in the barnyard for a 

 few days." 



Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, of Meriden, Now Hampshire, is 

 one of the most energetic and faithful banders at present engaged 

 in the work, notwithstanding his many other activities, lie tells 

 of a flock of 125 White-winged Crossbills that fed near his home 

 last winter. The birds were so tame that Mr. Baynes had but to 

 stoop and pick them up when he wished to place hands on their 

 legs. Members of the Meriden Bird Club have put up many 

 nesting boxes for Chickadees, Bluebirds, etc., and numbers of these 

 small birds have keen handed. Indeed, it goes without saying 

 that any bird that falls into the hands of Mr. Baynes wears a ring 

 on its leg when released. 



Mr. Harrison F. Lewis, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is another 

 who has accomplished much in the matter of banding the smaller 

 birds. Mr. Lewis told me that when the school children living 

 in the country near him heard of his banding work they all set out 

 to find birds' nests and report them to him. Tims a double end 

 was accomplished Mr. Lewis was enabled to hand dozens of 

 birds without spending much of his own valuable time in looking 

 for nests; and, best of all. the children of the countryside suddenly 



took a rousing interest in bird life, although perhaps unwittingly. 

 What these children were really keen about was to watch the placing 

 of the tiny aluminum Lands on the birds' legs, hut to locate the 

 young birds the nests had to he found and in order to find the nests 

 it was necessary to follow the movements and watch the habits 

 of the old birds. It is often difficult to induce children simply to 

 observe things if they think you are trying to make them acquire 

 some know ledge by doing- so. hut here was a new idea, a material end 

 to be accomplished- something to do. There is no reason why 

 the work of handing birds should not work a similar miracle among 



