For a while, it had been fun to play the hip young mother, the one who Shared clothing with them, who liked their music, the four of them ganging up on her husband, their father, who was old, so old!
The band is labeled with a tracking number, and there is a phone number on the band for people to call for free, to report a banded bird they've found or recaptured.
With a novelist's interest in detail, he carefully observed the shrug of one man's shoulders, the position of another's hands, the scowl on one face and the frown on yet one more.
They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude.