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THE WILSON BULLETIN— March, 1922 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila ccerulea ccerulea. 
Two nests found. Common in the woods. 
Wood Thrush Hylociclila mustelina. 
One nest found June 7, near river, in abandoned garden. 
Southern Robin Plancsticus mi g rat o rius aclmisterus. 
Only one seen, near a country school house. 
Bluebird Sicilia sialis sialis. 
Several seen on different occasions. 
BIRD BANDING AS AN OPPORTUNITY 
TO STUDY CHARACTER AND 
DISPOSITION 
WM. I. LYON, WAUKEGAN, ILL. 
Birds and animals have as much character and disposition 
as people, and bird banding offers an excellent chance to study 
individuality in birds when thev are actually in your hands 
where you may make a close-up examination and note their 
actions. 
The Waukegan, 111., Bird Banding Station has studied the 
action of the birds handled for the last live years and have 
enjoyed watching some very interesting characters in the dif- 
ferent birds handled. 
The White-throated Sparrows arrived at our station about 
October 4tli, 1021, and kept coming until October 25th, when the 
last new bird was banded, and from then on only a few re- 
peating birds were trapped. These seemed to like our restaurant 
and became regular boarders. Early in November we noticed 
that a certain five were always together in some of the traps at 
night. We handled them so often that it was noticeable that 
each had a different disposition. There was The Fighter, a 
female that always fought as long as it was held in the hand and 
when released it invariably would turn back and take one last 
peck at the fingers before flying. The next was The Squealer 
and it squealed continually throughout the entire time it was 
held in the hand. Then there was The Quiet One; she was 
just as gentle and quiet and as good a little bird as could be. 
Sometimes she would take a little hold of your finger but never 
pinch. We were sure by her actions that she would be the 
kindest little bird-mother that ever lived and we could not re- 
sist stroking her little head before releasing her. The Kicker 
