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much concerned as though this young 

 imposter -were '■'their own flesh and 

 blood. The male was ^.parti&ularly 

 demonstrative. He spread, -Ms .wings 

 and fluttered them, in gr'eat excitement, 

 in E' little bush on, the other side. They 

 did not flutter) allong thfe' ground ^as 

 many birds do, but stayed intheiw^eeds 

 and "bushes. : I could- n&t be certain 

 whether their behavior was In ' the 

 nature of pretended injury or mere:y 

 an emotional fluttering intende-d. to at- 

 tract- attention. It was probably th-e 

 latter for the-= male held up his wings' 

 in a very pretty and beseeching- man- 

 ner. 



When I released the young Cowbird 

 it flew perhaps a hundred feet and tni. 

 feiiiale Yellowthroat quickly followed 

 after it. The Cowbird had received a 

 slight injury about the mouth and to'j 

 ot,^head which suggested that some 

 other bird may have attacked it. 



Soon afterward, by dint of a strenu- 

 ous, ch,ase, I caught a young Yellow- 

 t^ir.oat, a pretty little fellow with its 

 tajl just sprouting, which was much 

 lilie the, adiilt female. This doubtless 

 belonged to other parents, and they. 

 made less fuss about it tha,n the -fos- 

 ter parents had naa4e for the young 

 Cowbird. 



■^/ " ■ A. D. DuBois, 

 -' 327 South Glenwood Ave., 



Springfield, 111. 



WORLD'S RECORD 



W. I. Lyon of Waukegan, 111., who 

 trapped and banded more than 1,000 

 birds in 1921, writes that he is anxi- 

 ous to secure more bird fans to take 

 lip this interesting and valuable work 

 during 1922 So if you are a bird en- 

 thusiast, here is your chance to get 

 into a mighty fascinating game. 



Mr. Lyon's idea is to have a string 

 of bird banders on both sides of Lake 

 Michigan, and eventually to get work- 

 ers down the rivers to the southern 

 bird homes, also the Mississippi valley 

 and- other Great Lakes fly ways need 

 to be covered. Any responsible per- 

 son with some knowledge of birds can 

 do this work and Mr. Lyon wants to 

 hear from any such who are Interest- 

 ed. 



He ha's been telling us about a Fox 

 Sparrow that broke the trap record 

 this winter, when it should have been 

 down south with the rest of its rela- 

 tions. This Sparrow showed up and 

 was' trapped in Waukegan on Nov. 12. 

 It came back again on Nov. 13, 14, 15 

 and 16.- Then he was trapped twice a' 

 day, -and sometimes three times a day, 

 until at the end of the month he had a 

 score of 33, evidently liking the res- 

 taurant of the bird banding station. 



The Sparrow stayed on, until by 

 March 17 he had been trapped 150 

 times — a record. 



Get a CATALOG 



Before they are 



All Gone 



(They are going hery fast.) 



OUTSIDE INSIDE 



54397, BIOL. SURV. I | WASH., D. C. | 



The above shows the marking on 

 the Fox Sparroiw's band. Any person 

 flndihg a similar band should report it 

 at once with all information possible 

 to Biological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



