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Cleaves, American Bird Banding Association. 



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5S04. Great Black-backed Gcll. Larits marinas. 



Banded at Lake George, Yar- 

 mouth Co., N. S., by Howard 

 II. Cleaves. 



July 23, L912. 



Fledgling. 



5S30. Great Black-backed Gull. 



Banded at Lake George, Yar- 

 mouth Co., N. S., by Howard 

 H. Cleaves 



July 26. 1912. 



Fledgling 'a few of these birds 

 (about three dozen were 

 banded) were seen later from 

 my blind. They paid no at- 

 tention to the bands.' H-H.C. 



5S32. Great Black-backed Gull. 



Banded at Lake George, Yar- 

 mouth Co., N. S., by Howard 

 H. Cleave-. 



July 27. 1912. 



Fledgling. 



Recovered at Marinette, Digby 

 Co, X. S., by Frank S. Doucet. 



December IS, 1912. 



Caught alive "Bird seemed half 

 tame, due probably to some ail- 

 ment. Band moved easily up 

 and down the tarsus.' F. D. 



Larus marinus. 



Recovered at Cape Negro Is., 

 Shelbume Co, X. S., by 



Ashley Smith. 

 October 4, 1912. 

 Shot by Mr Smith when gunning. 



Larus marinus. 



Recovered at Prout's Neck, Cum- 

 berland Co., Me., by G. Clifford 

 Libby. 



December 6, 1912. 



Found dead on the beach. 



7115. Piping Plover. .Lgialitis meloda. 



Banded at Katama, Martha's 

 Vineyard. Mass., by Howard H. 

 Cleaves, 



July 3. 1912. 



Three days old, one of a family 

 of three. 



Recovered at South Shore of 

 Martha's Vineyard, Mass. 



August 2. 1912. 

 Shot by a boy. 



12. Red-WINGED Blackbird. Agelaius phaeniceus pharniccus. 



Banded at Quonochoutaug. 

 Charleston, R. I., by Hairy S. 

 Hathaway. 



June 8, 1912. 



Fledgling, 'caught with the hands 



and when released alighted on 



a cattail' H. S. H. 



Recovered at Green Pond, Colle- 

 ton 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. Chaplin (owner of planta- 

 tion). 



