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Show TRACING FLIGHT OF BIRDS Most Interesting Results Have Been Obtained Through Banding the Flyers. Bird bunding has lately become popular in the United States and evidently evi-dently will soon reach a record. The I banding consists of attaching an ! identifying lag of the leg cf a captured captur-ed bird and then releasing the bird, ' -'ii the hope tlu't later, perhaps n a I -. r or pvo. it will be again captured I and the tag reported, so as to trace something of its migrations or other flights. Mere than SOO birds were so banded lust year, and an association of those interested has recently been organised. The 'bauds aro attached so r.s not to inconvenience the little travelers and are all numbered, besides be-sides carrying the words: "Notify American museum, New York." An example of the facts determined in this way is the experience of an enthusiast en-thusiast in New Hampshire last year, who found jn the leg of a chimney swift that fluttered down his chimney chim-ney a blind showing it was the same bird he had banded tln year before under similar circumstances-.' Chimney Chim-ney swifts are reputed to go as far south as Central America for the winter; win-ter; so this bird had made a long journey to get back to his old home for the summer. Saturday Eveuini-Post |