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BIRD BANDING ASSOCIATIONS..
At the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' U n ion, held
at cembridge, Mass., on October 9, 10, and 11, the morning session of
October 10 was given over entirely to bird banding, and several papers
of exceptional interest were presented. The New England Bird Banding
Association had made arrangements for a bird banding trip on the 12th,
when all interested in this subject were offered the opportunity to
inspect the excellent stations of Richard B. Harding, Conover Fitch,
Chas. L. Whittle, and L. B. Fletcher, at Cohasset. All these stations
are less than a mile apart, and all are well supplied with excellent
traps, preference being shown for the collapsible drop trap described
in Bird B anding Notes No. g.
Following the trip, a bird banding dinner presided over by
Dr. Alfred O. Gross, of Brunswick, Me., was given at the Hotel Essex.
The "trap" was "well baited", and about 75 persons were "caught? The
speakers were Dr. Chas. W. Townsend, President of the New England
Association, Dr. Witmer Stone, the retiring president of the A. O. U.,
Frederick C. Lincoln, of the Biological Survey, and L. B. Fletcher,
secretary of the N. E. B. B. A. Mr. Fletcher illustrated his remarks
with lantern slides from photographs made at different trapping stations.
The Inland Bird Banding Association held its annual meeting at
Indianapolis, Ind., on November 2 and 3, at the joint invitation of the 411
Indiana Audubon Society and the Nature Study Crib of Indiana. The
presidents of both these organizations, Alden H. :Hadley and S. E. Perkins,
III, respectively, are active station operators. The meeting was a great
success, and it is believed that this is the first time in the history of
American ornithology that a two-day session devoted to a specialized
field of investigation has been held, At the business meeting on November 2
all officers were reelected. The public sessions were well attended and great
interest shown in the various papers, given by S, Prentiss Baldwin, Wm. I.
Lyon, Herbert L. Stoddard, Frederick C. Lincoln, A. F. Ganier, W. S. Blatchley,
and Hon. RiChard Lieber, IndianaCor.tiesionor of Conservation. Y ore than 50
persons attended the annual dinner, held at the Lincoln Hotel. The speakers
were D r . Amos W. Butler, State Ornithologist, of Indiana, Frederick C. Lincoln,
of the Biological Survey, Orphesus M. Schantz, president of the Illinois
Audubon Society; and Alden H. Hadley, president of the Indiana Audubon Society.
In response to requests for information concerning the territory
covered by the different regional associations and the banding chapter
of the Cooper Club, the Biological Survey has prepared the following
map of North America with the boundaries indicated.