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into the 
, Wo found that hesving them into the air was sometime* enough 
to get them started. 
Our biggest problem seemed to be Arctic Foxes. We would set up the 
cannon-net and leave it for a couple of hours. When we returned we would ’nave 
birds in front of the net and would fire the cannons only to find that the 
faxes had come 
The foxes ware 
and chewed our firing wire into about six long pieces, 
another reason for halting mist net trapping. Tbs best 
time to catch the turnstones with mist nets was at daybreak which cmae at 
3 a.ta. The foxes were usually a little earlier than we were and would catch 
the birds in the net and eat them. They were hind enough to leave the leg 
with the hand on the (bray-crowned Eosy Finches so we could adjust our schedules 
accordingly. Besides being herd on mist nets, it was hard on the birds. We 
found that the quickest remedy was to shoot the faxes in the immediate vicinity 
of our operations. , 
Mortality from the cannon-net itself was extremely low am! we lost only 
four birds out of 2,OCX) netted with the cannon-net. 
In the course of banding the turnstonas, we recovered three Japanese 
bands. These bands were badly worn and were replaced with U. S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service bands. The bands were returned to the 
fcunsetone© had been beaded near Tokyo in 1962 and 19^3. 
one other recovery from Siberia. 
The 
had received 
We suspended 
lag operations on St. George on 
mwm 
7 2. Our first 
recovery was taken on Allinglaplap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 3353 miles 
southwest, on September 18. This was an average of 23? miles per day. Tire 
bird was the last bird to be banded on September 2. The t urns tone probably 
