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two thousand, two hundred and eleven Common Terns. Mr. Hastings 
spends a great deal of his time in photographing the birds and we are 
very greatly indebted to him for many fine pictures that have appeared 
in our AUDUBON BULLETIN. 
W. B. Purdy of Milford, Michigan, banded one hundred Common 
Terns in 1924, two hundred Herring Gulls, one thousand, five hundred 

Photo by Walter E. Hastings 
CaspIAN TERN COLONY 
Common Terns and one hundred and ninety-six Black-crowned Night 
Herons in 1925, and one thousand, two hundred Common Terns in 1926. 
Most of these birds were banded on the St. Clair Flats. 
The Rev. Geo. Luther of Detour, Michigan, has also kept systemat- 
ically at banding and in the last three years has banded close to five 
hundred Gulls and Terns. 
Prof. Wm. Rowan of the University of Alberta formed a party to go 
