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and contained one egg. On the 22d the nest was again visited and 

 found deserted, and the eggs, four in all, appeared to have been 

 frozen and were very much broken up. 



This is a very premature nesting period for this species in this 

 locality and it has excited my curiosity as to whether other ob- 

 servers have located similar nests. The only other instance on 

 which I have located a nest of the Bluebird earlier than April 15, 

 was on April 8, 190G. This later was found in an old apple tree 

 in Bloomfield, N. J., and had three young birds about two days old 

 when discovered. Louis S. Kohlek, Bloomfield, N. J. 



Additional Vernacular Name for the Flicker (Colaptes aura- 

 tiis). — It is known to native Floridians in this part of the state as 

 " Cotton-backed Yellowhammer." The first part of the name is to 

 distinguish it from the Red-bellied Woodpecker, which they some- 

 times call simply the " Yellowhammer." 



G. Clyde Fisher, De Funiak Springs, Fla. 



PELRSONALS 



OUR MEMBERS HERE AND THERE. 



Mr. Chreswell J. Hunt, the well known secretary of the Dela- 

 ware Valley Ornithological Club, has moved to Oak Park, 111., and 

 will now have an opportunity to work in a new field. We give him 

 the glad liand shake in the great Middle West. 



Dr. B. R. Bales, who is not only an ardent ornithologist, but also 

 quite a lepidopterist, intends to buy an ' automobile in order to 

 cover long distances to various bird homes in his vicinity. He re- 

 ports the taking of three Ring-necked Ducks at Circleville this 

 spring, quite a good record for Ohio, proving the Dr. to be always on 

 the go in spite of his busy professional life. 



Now why did you forget to send your Field Notes to the Wilson 

 Bulletin? Yes, why!? 



Professor C. R. Keyes of Mt. Vernon, la., at one time secretary 

 of that wide-awake organization, the Cooper Club, recently joined 

 our ranks. He has quite an article of decided merit on the Great 

 Horned Owls in the New York Independent of April 21, 1910. 



Mr. Ruthven Deane reports a number of Purple Martins picked 

 up in an exhausted condition at Evanston, north of Chicago, after 

 the severe storm of April. 



