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in its membership naturalists in the eastern Canadian prov- 

 inces, New York and New Jersey, as well as many from all 

 parts of New England. The following officers were elected: — 



President, Edward H. Forbush. 



Vice-Presidents, Dr. Charles W. Townsend and James Mackaye. 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Laurence B. Fletcher. 

 Recording Secretary, Mrs. Alice B. Harrington. 



Councilors, John E. Thayer, A. C. Bent, Dr. .John C. Phillips, Charles 

 L. Whittle, William P. Wliarton and Aaron C. Bagg. 



Within a few months the New England Bird Banding Asso- 

 ciation numbered over 300 members. Great interest was shown 

 in banding, but unfortunately early in the summer the supply 

 of bands gave out, and thus many were deprived of further 

 opportunity to band birds. Now, however, a machine has been 

 perfected which turns out bands at a rapid rate, and these can 

 be supplied in any number by the United States Biological 

 Survey at Washington. 



Notwithstanding this lack of bands, the members of the 

 association have banded to date about 4,000 birds, of over 100 

 species. Some of the birds banded have been heard from 

 several months after banding. Young Night Herons banded 

 on Cape Cod were picked up later, one at Kennebunkport, 

 Maine, another at Fryeburg, Maine, and still another at 

 Marblehead, Massachusetts. A Night Heron banded at Ips- 

 wich, Massachusetts, was found at North Andover, Massachu- 

 setts, A Junco banded in March at Sandwich, Massachusetts, 

 was captured in April by a cat at Buckland, Massachusetts, 

 nearly 100 miles to the westward. A Song Sparrow banded in 

 1921 at Cohasset, Massachusetts, returned and was taken in a 

 trap in the spring of 1922. In November and December some 

 winter birds which had been banded in Massachusetts last 

 winter or spring, and had gone north to breed, came back to the 

 same localities where they had been banded. Mr. Aaron C. 

 Bagg of Holyoke, one of the councilors of the association, had 

 a flock of about 40 Tree Sparrows last spring on his place, all 

 of which he succeeded in banding. Some of those banded dis- 

 appeared in February, and the last one left late in March. 

 Early in December two banded Tree Sparrows returned and 

 one went into the trap. It was one of those banded in the 



