March, 1923 
same and succeeding years, so that many 
times more returns are obtained than by 
casual banding with no chance of recov¬ 
ery save by accident. It was results from 
this trapping method which enabled Mr. 
Baldwin to bring the possibilities of bird¬ 
banding so convincingly to the attention 
of the United States Biological Survey, 
Washington, D. C., that that Bureau of 
the Government took it over at this point, 
and bands are now issued by, returns 
made to, and records kept by them. 
A PARAGRAPH as to a few of the 
1 ** interesting discoveries about Amer¬ 
ican birds made by bird-banding may be 
in order here. Definite data of the re- 
[ turn, year after year, of individual birds 
to a given nesting site lias been obtained, 
none more remarkable than that of the 
chimney swift to the identical chimney 
after a winter spent in the tropics. Young 
night herons, old enough to travel in mid¬ 
summer, make considerable journeys to 
the north before they go south with other 
birds to escape approaching winter. In- 
S dividuals of several species of winter 
sparrows, after nesting in the north, have 
been found to return to the identical win¬ 
ter quarters. A certain lot of ducks, 
mostly mallards and black ducks, banded 
north of western Lake Ontario in 1920, 
B moved south as follows: The majority of 
mallards and blacks down the Mississippi 
Valley. A smaller number crossed the 
Alleghanies to reach the Atlantic Coast 
at Chesapeake Bay. Two ring-necked 
ducks seem to have followed the latter 
course and were killed respectively in 
B Virginia in November and South Caro¬ 
lina in January. Several Blue-winged 
Teal were banded, but the early migra¬ 
tion of this species seems to have carried 
them beyond the United States before the 
opening of the gunning season. One, 
however, was taken at Port of Spain, 
Trinidad! 
In the accompanying map, the star in¬ 
dicates the locality where black and mal¬ 
lard ducks, a few blue-winged teal and 
two ring-necked ducks were banded; dots 
show where blacks and mallards were 
killed; circles mark the end of the two 
ring-necks; and a cross that of one of 
the teal in far-away Trinidad. (Data 
from a paper in “The Auk,” by F. C. Lin¬ 
coln of the U. S. Biological Survey.) 
Comparatively few persons have at 
once the interest and the opportunity to 
take an active part in bird-banding. A 
great many persons should be interested 
to know of it, and be on the lookout for 
banded birds (in the game-bag if they be 
sportsmen). To place a band on a bird's 
leg does not necessarily prove anything. 
To find a band on a bird’s leg, placed 
there by someone else, at some other 
place, at some other time, will almost al¬ 
ways bring to light something interesting 
about that individual bird, if reported to 
the United States Biological Survey, 
Washington, D. C. 
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