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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by S. Prentiss Baldwin 



A YOUNG CHARMER 



The two Chipping Sparrows liave succumbed to the hypnotism of 

 being placed on their backs, but will depart very suddenly when tliey 

 come out of their trance (see text, page Ii6). They are among the 

 easiest species to be thus charmed. When taken in the hands, most of 

 these birds remain silent; otliers squeal shrilly. 



At Thomasville a Brown Thrasher was 

 Ijanded and recaptured for eight successive 

 years. A Blue Jay was taken there six 

 different years, and Wrens four years in 

 succession. At Hillcrest a Chimney Swift 

 has been caught in the same chimney 

 for eight years. A Black-crowned Night 

 Heron was taken six years after it was 

 banded. 



A Pintail Duck, helplessly sick from 

 alkaline poisoning in the Bear River 

 ]\Iarshes of lltah, was cured and banded 

 by Dr. Alexander Wetmore during the 

 autumn of 191 4. Twelve years later it 



was killed in south- 

 eastern California, 

 having escaped the 

 perils confronting its 

 kind for a longer pe- 

 riod than is on record 

 for any other banded 

 bird. 



i; A N D I N G THROWS 



LIGHT ON BIRDS AS 



TRAVELERS 



The returns of 

 ] lands from points 

 where the birds wear- 

 ing them have been 

 captured or killed are 

 illuminating as to the 

 travels of individuals 

 of the different spe- 

 cies. 



A Chimney Swift 

 banded near Thomas- 

 ville, Georgia, in Oc- 

 tober, 1924, was taken 

 at East Kingston, New 

 Hampshire, June 15, 



A Purple Finch 

 banded at Pasadena, 

 California, in jNIarch, 

 was captured far to 

 the north, at Porter, 

 Washington, in June 

 of the same year. Be- 

 fore this it was be- 

 lieved that the Purple 

 Finches frequenting 

 the lower elevations of 

 southern California in 

 winter were those liv- 

 ing during the sum- 

 mer in the higher ele- 

 vations of the neighljorhood mountains. 

 The travels of this bird may be an indi- 

 cation that all the southern Purple Finches 

 move southward each winter and are re- 

 placed by those from farther north. 



A Robin banded in July at Crystal Bay, 

 Minnesota, was taken more than a year 

 later at Pachuca. on the southern border 

 of the Mexican tableland. A Double- 

 crested Cormorant banded in July on an 

 island in Quebec was shot the following 

 December ten miles from I^ake Okeecho- 

 bee. Florida, and proved to be the first 

 record of this species in that State. 



