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dish, to which he still comes regularly 

 three or four times a day, except during 

 his excursions. The bird has attracted 

 much attention in the local press, and a 

 number of bird students in the radius of 

 thirty or forty miles have been, at various 

 times, to see him. It is a curious fact that 

 a Carolina Wren has also been living in 

 some low Rocky Mountain spruces within 

 a few hundred feet of the Cardinal, during 

 the months of February and March, 

 making two rare birds well to the north- 

 ward of their range. — Frank A. Brown, 

 Beverly, Mass. 



A BOBOLINK TRAGEDY 

 Photographed by R. H. Beebe 



A Bobolink Tragedy 



I am enclosing a photograph of a Bobo- 

 link which had evidently hung itself. I 

 happened to discover the subject of this 

 picture while driving along a country 



road. The bird had undoubtedly slipped 

 or in some other manner got its head 

 caught in the crotch of the limb. The 

 photograph shows the bird exactly as 

 I found it, with the exception that I had 

 to lower the limb, as it was about ten 

 feet from the ground. In doing this, I in 

 no way touched or disturbed the bird. — 

 R. H. Beebe, Arcade, N. Y. 



A Course in Bird Study 



For the last three summers, there has 

 been given a course in bird study at the 

 Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences, of which 

 Dr. Charles B. Davenport is Director. 

 The Laboratory is located at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, New York. It is 

 thirty miles east of New York City, on 

 the north side of Long Island, within 

 three miles of ex-President Roosevelt's 

 home. In the immediate vicinity are 

 four fresh-water lakes, sphagnum bogs, 

 pine barrens, forest-clad hills, salt marshes, 

 and an arm of Long Island sound. This 

 variety of habitat is conducive to a variety 

 of birds. The Little Green Heron, the 

 Black-crowned Night Heron, and the 

 Spotted Sandpiper nest in the vicinity; 

 and, besides these, a great many land 

 birds. Last summer, more than two hun- 

 dred nests, either in use or abandoned, 

 were located and identified. 



The course, which consists of twenty 

 lectures and daily excursions for field 

 identification, is in charge of Mrs. Alice 

 Hall Walter, co-author of 'Wild Birds 

 in City Parks.' In addition to the regular 

 course, special problems for individual 

 study, relating to the food and habits of 

 liirds, are given. During the six weeks, a 

 beginner can get an introduction into 

 ornithology, and can become more or less 

 familiar with some sixty sjiecies of nesting 

 birds. 



The subjects of the lectures given last 

 summer are as follows: (i) Nesting Birds 

 of Cold Spring Harlior; (2)* Skeleton; 



(3) Study of a Bird Family — Warblers 



(4) *Anatomy; (5) Study of a Bird 

 Family — Sparrows; (6) *Feathcrs and 



