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and Flicker) " Them thar's Bullbats tluppin.u; over the water. 

 We used to tlnd plent)' of their e,u^:;s but no Wliipper-will's 

 e<4gs. Reckon the Whipper-vvill's the old he-un and the Bull- 

 bat's the she-un, for 1 never heard the Bullbat sin^^." The 

 local names of the Spotted Sandpiper and Green Heron followed 

 but are too fearfully expressive for these pages. We liad 

 nearly exhausted the list of some forty species which he as- 

 serted was all that nested thereabout, some few of which we 

 both knew by the same names, but — "Mockingbird.? Yes- 

 sir, we got two kinds, the English and the French Mocking- 

 birds. Oh yes dey's both Mockers shore, but the English's 

 the best." The last remark deserves more than a smile when 

 one discovers that this title designates the Southern Mocker, 

 knowing that it ranks above the Brown Thrasher as a songster. 

 Truely the early settlers, from whom this and many other of 

 the local names originated, thought the word "English" donated 

 something a little superior to that of "French." 1 also heard 

 the Brown Thrasher called "Red" and "Rusty Mockingbirds." 



Frank L. Burns, "Bctwyn, Pa. 



EDITORIAL. 



With the completion of the October number. Professor 

 L\'nds Jones who has so ably conducted the WiLSON BUL- 

 LETIN for the past seven years, retires from the editorial 

 chair, and the writer assumes the management for the cur- 

 rent year. It will be continued as near as possible on the 

 same lines as heretofore. It is essentially an outdoor bird 

 students' journal, appealing for support to no particular faction 

 or hobby, nor to state or sectional pride, but rather to that 

 growing body of everyday bird lovers. The BULLETIN has sur- 

 vived scorces of more or less pretentious ornithological period- 

 icals. It has seldom failed to give more than value received. 

 To many of its subscribers it has been a training school, teach- 

 ing honest, paintaking, perservering observation, accuracy and 

 tluency in description, which has resulted in increasing exper- 

 ience and proficiency in the field selected, and the accumulation 



