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day and fly about the buildings in which their nests were located, 

 but would never enter them. The weather for this vicinity on Oc- 

 tober 7 and 8, was cold and blustery. There was a high northwest 

 wind and the temperature was near the freezing point. On thesQ 

 two days a flock of about 100 Tree Swallows stayed here, flying 

 low over the pastures which, on account of the excessive rains we 

 had during the summer, were grown up with ragweeds. Sometimes 

 the swallows would settle down into the weeds and could be seen 

 fluttering about as if catching flies and other insects, which were 

 probably benumbed by the cold. In flying about the swallows 

 would come very close to where I was working, giving me a good 

 opportunity to identify them. 



With this flock of Tree Swallows were seen on each day two 

 Barn Swallows, which was quite a surprise to me, as my record 

 of the last ones seen for 1914, was nearly a month earlier. Fol- 

 lowing is my record of the migration of the Barn Swallow for the 

 last two years: 



1914, first seen April 30; becomes common May 2; last seen Sep- 

 tember 9. 1915, first seen April 26; becomes common May 8; last 

 seen October 8. 



J. J. SCHAFER. 



Port Byron, III. 



ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO VERNACULAR NAMES 

 FOR THE FLICKER. 



In my former compilation (Wilson Bulletin, No. 31, pp.. 4-12) I 

 have included 123 local names, many being "very local or very 

 slight orthographical or cacographical varients"; and for con- 

 venience of reference I now bring the nine additional aliases to- 

 gether. My former list included all of Ernest Ingersoll's Forest 

 and Stream enumeration, and I am pleased to have confprmation 

 of the late W. W. Colburn's contribution, " Willcrisson," cited for 

 the Dismal Smamp region, by W. L. McAfee, who has found it 

 used on Church Island, N. C, and to quote his words: " Such in- 

 stances renew one's faith in the accuracy of observation and the 

 reliability of spoken words of unlettered people." 



Dishwasher, Maryland (Barton's Fragments of Natural History 

 of Pennsylvania, p. 15). This name is also applied to the Pied 

 Wagtail in some parts of England, according to Montagu and 

 Newton. 



Cotton-backed Yellowhammer, Florida, " The prefix to distin- 

 guish it from the Red-bellied Woodpecker, which is sometimes 

 called the 'Yellowhammer,'" (Wil. Bui. No. 71, p. 127). 



Flecker, Pennsylvania (Barton's Frag. Nat. Hist. Pa., p. 1). 



