"l'jia Cleaves, American Bird Banding Association. 261 



6261. I'iicebe. Sayornis phoebe. 



J la mini ul Meriden, Sullivan Co.. Recovered at Meriden, N. H., by 



.\. H., by Ernest Harold Mrs. Ernest Harold Baynes. 



Baynes. 



June 6, 1912. July 14, 1912. 



Adult , nest in old house in Corbin Found dead beneath nest; 'could 



Park. 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 VII. 



In. 1. Handing 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 VIII. 



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 (Chcelura 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 t he problem of dispersal of the young. 



