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THE OOLOGIST 



during the past few summers. I feel 

 sure the Sparrows I saw were Bach- 

 man's Sparrows. If I am right, this 

 is the first record of the Sparrow as a 

 summer resident of Pennsylvania. 

 S. S. Dickey. 

 Waynesburg, Pa. 



A New Vernacular Name of the 

 Flicker. 



In Hurst's New Nuttall's Dictionary 

 published by Hurst & Co., New York, 

 1890, in the "Supplement of Additional 

 Words and definitations," many of 

 which are of American origin and 

 usage, and cannot be found in any 

 other dictionary, on page 871, I find 

 the following definition of the Flicker: 



FLICKER: — The Golden - headed 

 Woodpecker, or Yellow Hammer; also 

 called pigeon-woodpecker, high hole, 

 clape, etc. 



A Flicker with a golden-head would 

 be a novelty indeed! 



Richard F. Miller. 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



What an Editor Saw. 

 And Those He Met. 



Friday, July 11, 1913, Ye Editor, 

 together with his wife and mother 

 and chauffeur, started from his home 

 in Lacon, Illinois, and drove to Chica- 

 go, passing through the northerly 

 third of the most productive and high- 

 ly cultivated state in the Union. Of 

 course birds in that kind of a terri- 

 tory were not overly plentiful, though 

 many more seen of the more common 

 varieties. 



Saturday, July 12th, we rolled the 

 machine onto a steamer at Chicago, 

 and started for Buffalo. A trip over 

 the lakes is never without interest. 

 Sunday, an hour's stop was made at 

 Mackinac Island, that gem of all cre- 

 ation. 



Monday, we sailed down through 

 the most placid of all the lakes, 



Huron, which at that time was like 

 a wide sheet of glass, lying under a 

 blazing July sun. In the afternoon, 

 the winding channels of the St. Clair 

 river were traversed, through the 

 St' Clair flats, and flanked on each 

 side by continuous lines of summer 

 cottages, club houses, shooting lodges 

 and the like. 



While we were nearly always in 

 sight of Herring Gulls and Caspian 

 Tern on Lakes Michigan and Huron, 

 here on the St. Clair flats was a 

 motley assemblage of water birds, 

 ducks, gulls, terns, coots, redwings 

 yellowheads, and many smaller be- 

 ing observed from the ship's deck. 



Tuesday, July 15th, we arrived at 

 Buffalo and after driving over to Niag- 

 ara Falls, returned and spent a half 

 day with that Prince of oologists, 

 Ottohar Reinecke. We had never met 

 Reinecke, but soon learned he was a 

 typical German scientist of the old 

 school, painstaking, precise and ac- 

 curate in everything pertaining to 

 his scientific pursuits, and genial to 

 a fault. In looking over his collec- 

 tion, which was particularly rich in 

 rare Warblers, we saw many sights 

 that were a delight to the eye, includ- 

 ing nice series of Hooded and Ken- 

 tucky. Also the only set of five eggs 

 of the American Woodcock that has 

 ever fallen under our obesrvation, 

 these being personally taken by Mr. 

 Reinecke, as in fact, were nearly all 

 of the more rare specimens in his 

 collection. He also showed us a 

 nearly complete series of mounted 

 specimens of all the North American 

 Ducks. 



We left Buffalo for Rochester, Wed- 

 nesday morning, running through a 

 thickly settled territory and over the 

 magnificent roads for which New York 

 is noted. The next day, July 17th, we 

 drove from Rochester, out to Albion 

 to call on Frank H. Lattin, the founder 



