Returns from other birds. 
Records of three species from other families of birds m y be 
considered briefly* 
An immature double-oraated cormorant that wm banded on July 8 , 
1915 ms shot near the Jordan River twelve miles northvKJBt of Salt bake 
City on October 10, of the same year* 
Of eleven Sregansas bin® herons Urdoa Mmm&sL) mx'mA 
in 1916 while in the met return oans from one bird, an individual banded 
July 3, 1916 and killed November 1, 1916, four miles southwest of Billings, 
Montana, fhe Indicated northmrd movement after the breeding season is in 
accordance with a similar habit recorded for black-or owned night herons In 
the east. 
Bartsoh, 
Among eighteen American coot© ( Falloa amerloaB& ) one marked on Augast 
20, 1916 ms shot on Peoeraber 5 about seventy-five ralles south near lehl, 
Utah, as this species Is not hunted extensively in the west nothing was 
heard from others* 
She snowy heron { to.et.ta. oandidlsalrati) nest© In colonies in the lower 
Sear Biver Marshes and on July 3 and 14, 1916 eighty-three nestling were 
marked with bands, On March 1917 a peon at Maxoalftitan, Perritory of fepio, 
Mexico, brought a bit of aluminum to a Japanese labor oontraotor who chanced 
to pass through, saying that he had found it on the leg of a heron that he 
had killed and eaten* She band had been preserved out of curiosity as the 
peon ms unable to read, but ohu.noe brought a return on one of the snowy 
herons marked in Utah the yoar previous* About June 1, 1917 another was 
