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correspondent, or a paragraph in a newspaper, you 

 will brino: memoranda of a kind too:ether and make 

 a little article for publication. Then, if you have 

 written what are really facts, got by fresh observa- 

 tion, others will speedily know of it, and you will 

 begin to taste a morsel of that of which you can 

 never become quite satiated — reputation. 



Suppose, for example, the subject is suggested 

 of the odd names by which the familiar Colaptes 

 auratus is called in different parts of the coun- 

 try. Looking through your Journals you find that, 

 in the course of both your correspondence and active 

 birds'-nesting, you have heard and jotted down a 

 considerable number of these vernacular names, and 

 taking your pen you make a list of them with the 

 localities where each is to be heard, as follows : 



Golden -winged Woodpecker General. 



Yellow-shafted Woodpecker General. 



Flicker, or Yellow-shafted Flicker General. 



Yellowhammer General. 



Ilighhole, or Highholder General. 



Pigeon Woodpecker ...... New Toric and New England. 



English Woodpecker .... Long Island; Newfoundland. 



Yiirrup, or Yiicker ...... New York ; Pennsylvania. 



Caveduc, or Oinetuc .... Maine. 



AVild Hen Maine. 



Clape New York. 



Wakenp or AVahcup .... Massachusetts ; Long Island. 

 Shad Spirit New England coast. 



