134. Tut Witson BULLETIN—NO. To. 
proached the birds would suddenly disappear and come up some 
distance off. This is rather a rare bird in this locality and this 
is the first time I have found them personally, although I have 
been told by competent observers that they occasionally appear 
from year to year during the vernal migrations in this park. 
Louris S. KOHLER. 
ADDITIONAL VERNACULAR NAME FOR THE FLIcKER (Colaptes aura- 
tus).—The residents in several sections of Northern New Jersey 
speak of the Flicker as the “Woodcock.” There is no confusion 
between this bird and the real Woodcock (Philohela minor), which 
they call ‘“Mud Hen,’ as on numerous occasions I haye asked 
them to show me the bird they term as the ‘“ Woodcock” and they 
have pointed out the Flicker each time. 
The young of this bird in many instances fall prey to pot 
hunters, as they are prized by some of the lesser intelligent of the 
country folk and nearly all of the resident aliens as a table deli- 
cacy. The Game Commission has put forth their best efforts to 
stamp out this traffic, but in some of the isolated portions the 
practice is successfully carried on and heavy inroads are made 
upon their numbers each year. 
Bloomfield, N. J. Louts S. Kowrer. 
Educational Work 
A COURSE IN Bird Stupy.—For the last five summers there has 
been given a regular course in bird study at the marine biological 
laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, The 
laboratory is located at Cold Spring Ilarbor, Long Island, New 
York. %It is thirty miles east of New York City, on the north side 
of Long Island, near Qyster Bay. Dr. Charles B. Davenport is 
director of the laboratory. and he is also director of the Station 
for experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 
ton, which is located on adjacent grounds. 
The surrounding country is quite diversified. In the immediate 
vicinity are sphagnum bogs, pine barrens, forest-clad hills, briery 
thickets, salt marshes, four beautiful fresh-water lakes, and an 
arm of Long Island Sound. This variety of habitat is conducive 
to a variety of birds. The Spotted Sandpiper, the Little Green 
Heron, and the Black-crowned Night Heron nest in the vicinity. 
and besides these, a great many land birds. During the six weeks, 
the bird class locates and identifies about three hundred nests, 
either in use or abandoned. This gives some notion of what a 
bird’s paradise the region is. 
