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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Banding black-backed gulls at Lake George, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia question had been marked when about two weeks old at Saint Clair Flats Canal, Michigan on August 13, 1909, by Mr. S. A. Courtis. By correspondence with Mr. Salois it was learned that the terns were apparently not nesting at Whitebread, Ontario, and it is not un- likely that the birds seen there had bred at Saint Clair Flats and were indulg- ing in a little roving after the nesting season. How- ever this may be, the facts remain that the dead tern had worn the aluminum anklet for three years minus eight days; had likely made three round trips to the Gulf of Mexico or some other place in the tropics to 146 shot at the fast disappearing bird. There were many terns flying up and down the stream, hovering in the air and plunging for minnows, and it seems strange that the one shot should have born a band on its leg with the number 4590. The finding of that band resulted in a letter to New York from the gunner, Mr. Leo Salois. On referring to 4590 among the original banding rec- ords it was found that the bird in
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