March, 1923 
to “most anything;” or why a trout will 
rise once, and once only, to a certain fly. 
This may also explain the success of 
the so-called “fancy” flies which in color 
resemble nothing in the earth, the 
heavens or the waters under the earth. 
The same sense of curiosity (shall we 
call it?) may help to explain why, when 
standard artificials fail, a battered, 
grizzled veteran of a nondescript may 
be the only taking thing in sight. 
HERE has been much speculation as 
I A to the relative importance of color, 
shape, size, and motion of the artificial. 
[ In a rapid current the fish probably 
gets an impression of something coming, 
[ moving and small enough to eat, which 
must be seized as it passes if at all and 
so come up to almost any object diminu¬ 
tive enough to provoke a rise. But on 
a still and gently moving water the fish 
has ample chance to study more closely 
anything on the surface. Hence it is 
but reasonable to suppose that in this 
case the closer the resemblance of the 
artificial to the natural, the greater the 
likelihood of getting a rise. 
In this light can a “fancy” be properly 
called a fly at all? How does its status 
differ from that of a feather minnow” 
err a trout “plug”? Should not all flies 
except those copied accurately from the 
Ifj natural insect be barred in fishing con¬ 
tests where the conditions state that 
only those fish will be considered that 
are caught by “casting a fly with fly- 
tackle?” In other words, should the 
fly-fisher care at all how he gets his 
fish provided he gets them ? Or should 
the method be of equal or more impor¬ 
tance than the game? 
143 
INLAND BIRD-BANDING 
ASSOCIATION 
(Continued from page 122) 
Leon J. Cole (now with the University 
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.) was per¬ 
haps the most active. Bands were placed 
mostly on young birds about to leave the 
nest. Considerable bookkeeping, in financ¬ 
ing, distributing bands, and keeping of 
records resulted in a small percentage of 
birds retaken by chance (especially as 
killing birds for the purpose of recover¬ 
ing bands was always considered an un¬ 
justifiable infringement of wise laws for 
their conservation). Returns, though 
small in number, were however so worth 
while, that those interested in the move¬ 
ment were far from being discouraged. 
Nevertheless, in a few years they found 
themselves unable to carry on the work 
properly due to the time and application 
it involved. It was therefore turned over 
to the Linnaean Society of New York, 
which appointed a bird-banding commit¬ 
tee. Mr. Howard H. Cleaves was the 
active member of this committee. He 
made of “The American Bird-Banding 
Association” a strong and active organi¬ 
zation, national in scope, which issued 
bands and kept records. Finding of 
these bands was reported to the Ameri¬ 
can Museum of Natural History, N. Y., 
the headquarters of the Linnaean So¬ 
ciety. 
(Continued on page 154) 
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