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but one of my banded birds has been recovered: a young robin, 
banded on July 21, 1920, at Douglas Lake was taken on January 
21, 1921 in Perry county, Mississippi, fifty miles north of the 
Gulf of Mexico. Multiply such results many fold and the 
amount of information concerning various phases of the activ- 
ities of robins will have become more widely disseminated. 
Numerous side lights will force themselves upon the attention of 
the student from time to time; and often the slight bits of en- 
couragement thus afforded will prove a legitimate incentive for 
a continuation of interest which will result in intensive, thorough 
and exhaustive work in little developed though none the less pro- 
ductive fields. 
State University oe Iowa 
