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above the roar of traffic and the din of auto engines. It is ex- 

 tremely rare that one hears their " B-o-o-m " in the city, but their 

 country cousins are as versatile in these death-defying nose dives 

 as a tramp aviator at a county fair. 



A pair of them has taken to " Culture " with a vengeance, hav- 



ing for two summers made their home on the roof of the " Home 

 Economics Building " on the campus of " George Peabody College 

 for Teachers." Like many intellectual families the number of off- 

 spring is limited and the accompanying picture will show how 

 Mother Chordeiles accepted the social call paid her on a recent 

 morning in mid-July. 



George R. Mayfield. 

 Nashville, Tenn. 



WOODCOCK INCREASING 

 The Woodcock {philohela minor) has for a good many years 

 been looked upon the country over as a rare bird and one which 

 has been losing ground to the extent that its extinction has been 

 freely predicted. It has therefore been the source of much grati- 

 fication to the writer to note the gradual increase of these birds, 

 in the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn.. during the past few years. Eight 

 or ten years ago the hunting season for Bob-white was curtailed 

 so that it expired January 1st instead of March 1st. The measure 

 helped materially to restore this species to a semblance of their 

 former abundance, but in a far more marked degree did it give suc- 

 cor to the hard pressed Woodcock. When the " quail " hunters go 

 afield on November 1st most of our Woodcock have migrated fur- 

 ther south and few are killed during the two months of the open 

 season. As is well known, the Woodcock is an early breeder and, 

 in this locality, lays its eggs before March 1st. During the former 

 extended hunting season they returned to their favorite nesting 

 grounds while the gunners were still afield and fell easy victims. 



