Harris; Hilda Hilchey; David & Dude Holman; Ben Hoteling; Sandra Hume; Connie Ings; 
     
     Gordon Jackson; Evelyn Jenkins; Ken Jenkins; Barb and Sonny Johnson; Marnie Johnson; 
     
     Lila Jones; Mary Kickham; Alfred Laybolt; Louise Leeco; Keith Lewis; Gene Lund; 
     
     Gerald MacDonald; Kenny A. MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald; Hillard MacKinnon; Alan & 
     
     Faye MacPhee; Virginia MacSwain; Margaret Mair; Gisele Martin; Dan McAskill; Janice, 
     
     Arlene 5 Paul McGuigan; Linda Munroe; Gene Hutch; Carol & Wilfred Nicholson; Dwaine 
     
     Oakley; Melva O'Connor-Refuse; Roberta Palmer; Brenda Penak, Bruce Pigot; Cef, Wendy 
     
     E Kate Pobjoy; Clem Reid; Ivan 5 Freda Reid; Ruth Richman; Maurice Roy; Ron Russell; 
     
     June Sanderson; Gary Schneider; Anne Stewart; D.G. Stewart; John Stewart; Linda 
     
     Thomas; Reg & Jean Thompson; Reg 9 Jill Thompson; Carole Townsend; Liz Townsend; 
     
     Madeleine Venart; Dorota Wadowska; John Warren; Jean Watts; Blair Wood, Winston and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Marguerite Wood; Pat 5 Ann Wootton; and Glenda Wright. 
     
    
   
   
    
     L30 BAND!” GULL ALERI: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kouchibouguac National Park wardens 
     
     have requested our assistance to look for any 
     
     of 47 Herring Gulls or 1 Great Black-backed 
     
     Gulls on which they placed a red plastic leg 
     
     band on the right leg. This leg banding 
     
     study is an effort to ascertain the winter 
     
     distribution of these gulls who were live 
     
     trapped and banded at Tern Island. The 
     
     hypothesis they are testing is that these 
     
     birds are remaining near the colony in winter 
     
     by feeding on smelt fishery by-catches which 
     
     fishers throw on the ice surface. Please 
     
     report any sightings of these birds, their 
     
     location and the date seen to Benoit Richard 
     
     at Kouchibouguac National Park, 
     
     Kouchibouguac, NB EOA 2A0 or telephone 506- 
     
     876-2443. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BIRD SPECIMENS WANTED: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project staff wish to obtain 
     
     and window kill bird specimens to augment their teaching collections. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     " canoon bv 
     
    
   
   
    
     Richard Les'lanc 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dicppe, NB 
     
    
   
   
    
     road kill 
     
     If you find 
     
    
   
   
    
     such a specimen, please contact Gary Schneider so that it can be properly preserved 
     
    
   
   
    
     and prepared for their collection. Gary can be contacted at 583—3068. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NEW MARINE PLANT: 
     
    
   
   
    
     by Jim Jenkins 
     
    
   
   
    
     A specimen of seaweed was brought into the Department of Fisheries and Oceans 
     
     last fall for identification. It was dark green, springy like Jell-o, looked like a 
     
    
   
   
    
     finger sponge, bushy in appearance, and about ten inches in height. 
     
     searched their minds and their reference texts. 
     
     The culprit was identified as Codium fragile, a green marine seaweed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The staff 
     
    
   
   
    
     Codium 
     
    
   
   
    
     has a variety of common names such as 'Sputnik weed' since it was found just after 
     
     the launching of the sputnik satellite, deadman‘s fingers, spaghetti grass, and green 
     
     fleece. It was introduced, we believe, from Europe to the Eastern United States, 
     
     around Long Island, in 1957. It may have been a passenger on the many freighters 
     
     plying the oceans. since then, Codium has spread along the coast, reaching Nova 
     
     Scotia a few years ago. Unknown to local people, it was found just over a year ago, 
     
     along the Nova Sootia coast, near Pictou. This was the first recording in the Gulf 
     
    
   
   
    
     of St. Lawrence.