Black Duck No. 10505, banded by Mr. Robie W. Tufts, 
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, June 21, at Seal Island, was killed 
at Goose Bay, Yarmouth County, N. S., November 8. 
A Bronzed Grackle, banded September 11, by Mr. Charles 
A. Floyd, Auburndale, Mass., was found wounded at Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J., November 7. Later it recovered and flew away 
with others of its kind. 
Professor W. C. Vinal, of Providence, R. I., banded a 
Flicker at Wellfleet, Mass. This bird was found dead in 
a chimney of a closed summer cottage, November 5th, at 
North Eastham, Mass. 
Records covering fifteen days, of fifty-five banded birds 
show, according to the following tabulation, how frequently 
“repeats” are made: 
14 were in the trap once. 
13 were in the trap twice. 
9 were in the trap three times. 
1 in the trap five times. 
2 in the trap seven times. 
1 in the trap nine times. 
1 in the trap ten times. 
Messrs. Fletcher, Whittle and Floyd motored through 
Essex County visiting old barns, both deserted and occu¬ 
pied, and succeeded in banding forty-three Barn Swallow 
nestlings. 
One of the members of the N. E. B. B. A. who lives in 
Middleboro, Mass., spent her summer at Marion, Mass., 
and banded on the beach two Sharp-tailed Sparrows, two 
Spotted Sandpipers, and two Semipalmated Plovers. She 
used the pull-string trap. “I hid behind a wall near a marsh, 
and when they went under my trap I pulled the string. I 
didn’t use any bait but let them 'hunt in their natural way. 
I couldn’t see what the sandpipers and sparrows ate, but 
the plovers ate long worms which they pulled out of the 
ground the way Robins pull a worm in the garden. I put 
my trap out three days before banding, to let them get used 
to it.” 
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