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The Tagging of Nesting Birds. — The plan introduced by Dr. Leon J. 
Cole of New Haven, Conn., for the marking of birds, both old and young, 
should prove in time of much value by its help in solving some of the prob- 
lems connected with their migratory movements, and for that reason we 
may wish it a success. 
My experience, however, in the tagging of young Martins, as I regret to 
say, has not proved altogether successful. For example, a brood tagged 
July 26 was found to have left the chamber safely, but not so the remain- 
ing members of another brood similarly marked two days later. On 
August 12 the remains of this bird were found just outside the chamber 
on the martin-house platform, some of the nesting material it seems having 
become attached to the aluminum band on the bird’s right leg, holding it 
fast and thus causing it to perish after being abandoned to its fate by the 
older birds. Unfortunately my attention had been drawn elsewhere soon 
after the marking, otherwise this tragedy might have been prevented. 
But this incident serves to show that some caution will have to be exer- 
cised in the marking of the young; and, in the writer’s opinion, it may be 
necessary for us to confine our work to the larger and jnore powerful birds. 
For obvious reasons such birds as the Vireos, and particularly the Orioles 
and various members of the family Parida;, should be stricken from the 
list, in fact, any of the birds where a similar mishap is likely to occur. 
A tag might be devised, however, which would remedy all this and 
allow us to proceed with the original plan, but nothing thus far has pre- 
sented itself to my mind. Others perhaps may have met with a similar 
experience.— Benj. T. Gault, Glen Ellyn, III. 
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