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BIRD BANDING DEPARTMENT 
Under the Direction of Wm. I. Lyon, Waukegan, III. 
WANTED — More Bird Banders, anywhere, everywhere. If you can- 
not be one yourself make it your duty to catch and tag someone else. 
The possibilities of Bird Banding are limitless. It is by far the 
most fascinating sort of bird-study imaginable. The contributions it 
can make to the scientific knowledge of birds are of inestimable value. 
The work is within the reach of all, or at least of all who have a suit- 
able location for a trap; it involves but little expense and requires no 
great experience and little ornithological knowledge. 
The results will increase in geometrical progression as the number 
of bird-banders increase. And we may confidently expect that more 
people will actively take up the work as its possibilities become better 
understood. 
R. L. Talbot. 
509 Audubon Road, 
Boston, Mass. 
NOTES FROM SAULT STE. MARIE 
My banding experience this far has been partly good and partly 
bad, the bad largely due to lack of time. 
I have had a flock of Evening Grosbeaks ( Hesperipliona vespertinci 
vespertine ) regularly at my feeding station every winter since the win- 
ter of 1915-16. Last year the first of the flock arrived August 24, num- 
bered 35 to 40, the last two leaving May 25. For some reason the birds 
were very scary so I did not try to band any until early in March. I 
had no success. The birds did not mind the trap at all, perched all 
over it, pecked all around it and in the entrance, but would not go in. 
Only one bird got into the trap and that was one day when I was out of 
town, so it was let go without banding. I have had a drop trap made 
and hope to have better success when the flock returns. 
Dr. Christofferson, my associate in bird work, and myself have 
again located the Evening Grosbeaks in the eastern part of the Upper 
Peninsula of Michigan in summer. The first reports of the birds being here 
in summer came to us in 1920. On investigation we found the reports 
correct. We checked the birds in the same localities last year and 
again this year. The nearest point to the Soo is about 35 miles to the 
west. 
A colony of Common Tern ( Sterna Kirundo) nest every year on a 
low lying island in Munuscong Bay, 25 miles southeast of the Soo. 
In 1920 we visited the island, May 29, and found 52 nests, 86 eggs; 
June 24, 72 nests, 28 young, 148 eggs; 1921, May 28, 105 nests, 234 eggs; 
June 16, 1922, 15 eggs, all young out of nests; May 28, 39 nests, 75 eggs. 
The nests were more scattered than usual, probably because the 
birds had been disturbed. We found the shells of over two dozen eggs 
near a camp fire. 
As on June 24, 1920, there were young just hatched and eggs in the 
