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THE WILSON BULLETIN — March, 1922 
In 1914, 10 bands were placed; in 1915, 29; in 1916, 51; in 1917, 118; 
in 1918, 32; in 1919, 17; in 1920, 360; in 1921. 1100. 
The past year was by far the busiest and the Biological Survey re- 
ports that they have the largest record of the year in the United States. 
Including House Sparrows and the number of times birds repeat, the 
total number of birds handled at the station was 2678. 
To the first of the year the station has had twenty returns, five of 
them were recovered away from the district and fifteen recovered lo- 
cally, and one of those returned for the third time. 
DETAIL OF TRAPPINGS IN 1921. 
Former 
Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug 
Sep 
Oct Nov Dec Total 
Robin 
tss 
4 13 20 12 8 
1 
243 
•Teuco 
>5 30 
7S 1 0 
0 306 
Downy Woodpecker . . 
11 
1 4 
r» 
3 15 
Chickadee 
1 
2° 
23 
White-throated Sparrow. ..163 
10 32 
1 60 2 
366 
White-crowned Sparrow... 4 
28 
1 
33 
Fox Sparrow 
1 
1 3 
10 5 
20 
Song Sparrow 
8 
1 12 3 11 
1 
36 
Field Sparrow 
1 3 
4 
House Sparrow 
o 
2 6 72 78 217 131 
14 
17 17 
18 503 
Vesper Sparrow 
4 
4 
Tree Sparrow 
8 
3 11 
Towliee 
10 
16 1 
6 
33 
Brown Thrasher 
44 
2 6 4 3 2 
1 
1 
63 
Northern Flicker . . . . 
23 
1 5 5 
36 
Red- winged Blackbird 
21 
4 1 
26 
Bronzed Grackle 
.... 25 
3 21 27 12 8 1 
07 
Mourning Dove 
16 
4 3 1 
1 
25 
Catbird 
20 
3 6 
20 
Barn Swallow 
8 
3 5 
16 
House Wren 
16 1 
20 
Blue Jav 
1 
1 1 
*7 9 
1 8 
Hermit Thrush 
o 
2 
4 
Northern Shrike 
1 
2 2 
4 
White-breasted Nuthatch. . 
2 2 
4 
Less than 4: Savannah Sparrow 
2. Swamp Sparrow 1. 
Harris Sparrow 1. 
Chipping Sparrow 2, 
Red headed Woodpecker 3. Bluebird 3. 
Oven-bird 3. 
. King- 
bird 3, Screech Owl 2 
. Black-poll Wa 
rbler 1, Yellow Warbler 
1. 
Bittern 1 
. Rose- 
breasted Grosbeak 1, 
Indigo Bunting 
1. Crow 1. Olive-backed Thrush 1 
Water- 
Thrush 1, Cowbird 2 
, Spotted Sandpiper 3. Baltimore Oriole 
3. Crested Fly- 
catcher 2. Wood Thrush t. Myrtle Warbler 2. 
The New England Bird Banding Association 
On the seventeenth day of January, 1922, in response to an invita- 
tion from Mr. L. B. Fletcher and others interested in the banding of 
birds, over a hundred ornithologists, licensed bird-banders and candi- 
dates for licenses, met at the Boston Society of Natural History Building 
in Boston and organized a new ornithological society to be known as the 
New England Bird Banding Association. The meeting was addressed by 
S Prentiss Baldwin of Cleveland. Ohio, who, during the last six years, 
b} introducing bird-trapping as a means of banding birds, has done so 
much to show the scientific possibilities of the work. The Bureau of 
