Show trace race birds by use of dof d of anklet danklets babits of our feathered friends discovered by american bandin banding g society TODY ALREADY ARE MARKED incredible wing milea milcah Is revealed in some of the reports new facts about domestic relations of jenny wren and husband aar new york the habits of birds bird the age they at att alii the dispersal or distribution trib ution of their young their batill mating customs the hie strength of the homing instinct the colluis consistency delicy in with I 1 ill I 1 NN which aich migrant bires bins leburn to gien areas in ill their winter inter range routes followed by individual al birds aai and ii even polygamy these and countless other pro problems blews tile the american bird Bland handing ilig association seeks to solve by ineth methods that leave no opportunity for questioning tilt alie accuracy of tile late dale the several hundred in members embers of the association lime liae for 12 years been conducting their re research carch on a lar large ge scale in the alie western eliere and european societies whose alms acillis at arc e identical with those of the american met lean workers have been operating since juds these bodies of investigators pursue their experiments by the t I 1 le use of rings bands of tags each bearing an inscription or return nil address dress anti anil a serial number tilt the ill binds are arc usually made of aluminum find and are manufactured in about a dozen different sizes to fit the legs of all birds from the 1 smallest warbler to the clumsy pelican and the mighty eagle fifty eight thon thousand sand of these hands bands hane hae so tar far been made for the american bird bantling banding association asadi elation and approximately have been placed by members on olk the legs of birds F each ach aln Is stamped with the words notify am museum N Y and following this or on icv reverse csc rsc sll side of the lie band Is a serial number at the lie time the band Is placed on oil the bird the bander records on q a standard t file card all informs information t ion re relating abing to the operation these data include the number of tile band the name of the bird its age whether nestling fledgling or adult locality date name of bander and remarks tho the bird havink having been thoroughly catalogued cataloguer catalo gued 0 sent on oil its way long migrations recorded workers for the association have carried into the remotest regions As mc of scientific and exploring parties pa artles they have placed tile the tags on birds in alaska greenland labrador and even in tile antarctic a thousand miles from cape horn A young robin banded in III its nest on the lonely shores of great slave lake in the northwest territory of canada tins lias been reported from louisiana more than 2000 miles away a massachusetts tern or sea swallow lias has beell been recovered a similar distance stance al from its birthplace in the waters oft off the venezuelan coast and a chimney swift a n bird less than six inches long has been recorded at its new hampshire P summer home after three seasonal journeys to south america involving almost almont incredible wing mileage the minimum distance covered having been miles aside from tilt birds which are systematically trapped wild birds elcher dead or alive fall into human hands in III a variety of ways the longest period record thus far turned in ills his licen been produced by a common crow which was banded in the nest fit at berwyn ila ia may 17 1914 and shot while stealing chickens on the sixth anniversary of the date of banding may 17 1920 at ill A enix ville ila ia only eight miles from tho the site of its iirth birth the in on oil tile lie aluminum lint bund band worn by this blid S is ns legible today us is it aia v lien received fro from tile hie Il liker the alx ix aurs ol of raigh under all 11 weather un one of the he most 10 lo abill ing or of writ air life L 1 light out ill NY by ing ijas li is to do alt halh h lit alie IL ol of jenny J illey wren ilni and her conval ani wren Is if fickle wrens r 1 I 1 se two larke large ful ailles in rapid each cadi seaon ion III in i these aces it would naturally he be li ought tile bea of the ilie would rive give ills 1113 hill attention to ills 11 aliouse 01 1 ae hold not so however ho Never alth an all ohio lionso e ren aho vho lw III ilie ills first hatch of offspring spring W wis on oil tile ing ng lesly abandoned ills little brown wife and ingoing off less alian I 1 I 1 in a agun ahun 1 liun decd yards reared lis bs second family alah a fourie mate this abominable fich fiCk leneis lelleS tillight never leave 1 been suspected had it nut not been for the numbered rin s used on all of the characters involved another house bollo wren with a I 1 Is the little old woman na alio livid livi d in ill a shoel shoe she and her kind their 13 call children ren reared in two installments stall ments were all bini b lel no N 0 word lias bas ever been heard froal tile lie children ChIl dlen once they left but 1 1 I benr later a atren was been nt it the old oil alirie liun in chilow will I 1 ij on oil ills leg but no lid mate was near the ol isenor Is ia loft left it if perhaps there I 1 is not ot in the south a wren ateno of the total lota of birds bird banded I 1 y or i 2 per cent havis so 0 o far been bea bieard rd from and ii dolit ionn recoveries sire I 1 re belp ucles cecen ed from froin time to little line |