N n Sev en million birds have been ringed in t rtn America, I
read the other day, since ttle,sYtern of marking birds in this way began retails nd of the last century. According to Wildlife its Published by the American Fish and "dlife Service 600,000 ringed birds have ,tell traced, establishing some interesting facts. ;la tern ringed in New Brunswick died in Scot- 0,11(1, a pintail ringed in Labrador was shot itee weeks later in this country, a Cape Cod )tiara duck died in Newfoundland seventeen after being ringed and yet another pin- 4I1 Marked in California was shot 4,500 miles Nay on a Pacific island three months later. itt twig ago I handled two ringed birds.
ZY Were a sparrow and a thrush. One pi oved
"e a local resident and the other had come it3rn Yorkshire, some eighty-five miles. Before tver heard of ringing birds, when, as a boy, itused to stand and wait for fighting ducks, ittortietifnes came to me that they might have 44,,velled half-way round the world from a "r1113 in Siberia or a jheel in India and 1 had %altos riu shooting them. Had I found 8invged birds in my bag I think I might have ell uP shooting them a great deal sooner.
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