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sota a few years ago when I had a week’s lecture engagement in 
Minneapolis. 
In 1923, the bird banding interest was born at the Lincoln Hotel 
in Indianapolis. Messrs. Baldwin, Lyon, Lincoln, Hadley, Stoddard, 
Perkins, Coffin, two ladies by the name of Gardner, and myself organ- 
ized the Inland Bird Banding Association for which Mr. William I. 
Lyon did so much. A picture of the organizers appeared in the fall 
number of the bulletin in 1923. 
I cannot now recall my first meeting with Robert Ridgeway, but 
his delightful friendship was one of the very highest high spots in 
my ornithological experience. Among others whom I have not men- 
tioned are Steve Gregory, Jack White, Edward Ford, W. H. Osgood, 
Mr. Devine, long since passed on. There were still others with whom 
I had only a slight acquaintance but who were good ornithologists. 
In 1926 I went to the A. O. U. meeting in Ottawa, Canada, where 
I had a most delightful experience. Ruthven Deane, William I. Lyon 
and I were together and Mr. Deane introduced me to all the celebrities. 
Of course I knew Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Frank Chapman, Allan Brooks 
and Archibald Rutledge. 
In 1914 I was treasurer of the Wilson Club and through that con- 
tact met Lynds Jones, Rev. Henninger (a friend of Mr. Eifrig’s) and 
Althea Sherman, a remarkable woman from National, Iowa, near Mc- 
Gregor. 
I have for many years examined boy and girl scouts for their 
bird study and other badges and while president of the Audubon So- 
ciety lectured in almost one hundred towns in Illinois. 
I shall never get over the excitement of new bird identifications. 
There are only a few of the smaller birds that come to the Chicago 
region—the blue grosbeak, white winged crossbill, Arctic three-toed 
woodpecker and possibly a few sparrows, as well as quite a list of 
ducks and waders (shore birds)—that I have not seen. 
Riverside, Ill. 
The Story of a Semipalmated Sandpiper 
By KARL E. BARTEL , 
AUGUST 4, 1937, my first day of banding at Calumet Lake, my “catch” 
was one Wilson’s snipe, two spotted sandpipers and sixteen semipal- 
mated sandpipers. On the left leg of one of the semipalmated sand- 
pipers was placed a band, with the number 37-52348. (Incidentally, 
to the conclusion of this story, I was told by some laborers at the 
lake, four men shot a small bagful of sandpipers on the following 
day. It may be of interest to say that a game warden was stationed 
there later.) 
This common little sandpiper is seen beside ponds or on mud 
flats in the fall of the year. It is known sometimes as the black- 
legged peep. It breeds in northeastern Siberia, on the Arctic Coast 
of North America and in northern Labrador. It winters chiefly in the 
