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NOTES ON THE I'.IUnS OF ("AUKOI.L, MONIfoK. AND VICO COIN- 

 TIES. INDIANA. 



Barton Waukkn KvKR^[A^•^•. 



Director of tlio Musouni of tlic ( "iilifiiriiin AcMdciiiy of Sciences. 



It has been my aiin to l)rin.e; toKetlier and put on rccm-d in tliis paixT 

 such notes as I now have conceniiiiK the birds of Carroll. .Monroe, and Vi^'o 

 counties. Indiana. I bejian recording my observations on the birds as long 

 ago as 1877. The greater part of the records made prior to 1888, were, how- 

 ever, lost in the tire which destroye<l the Indiana State Normal School build- 

 ing on March 8 of tliat year. Fortunat<'ly, some of my note books were 

 saved. The present paper is based chietiy uiK»n the notes contained in tlieni 

 and sucli as were made subsequent to that dati'. 



Cakroi-l County. 



Carroll County was my home during Imyhood and until August. 1879. I 

 was in the coimty during part of the summers of 1881 and 1882. and almost 

 continuously from March. 188.'5. to July. 1885. Since 188;"). I have in some 

 years been able to spend from a day to a weelc or more in tlie county. 



Up to 1877. my interest in l>irds was merely such as is taken by most 

 country boys with a more or less decided "bent" for natural history. In 

 the s])riug and summer of 1877. my wife. Meadie Hawkins Everniann. was 

 a student of Dr. David Starr .Jordan's at liutler University, and. through 

 Dr. .Jordan. Mrs. Susan Bowen .Jordan. Dr. and Mrs. Alembert W. Brayton. 

 and Mr. Charles H. Gilbert, all of whom then lived in Irvington and all of 

 whom were then enthusiastic collectors and students of birds, she. too. be- 

 came interested in natural history, particularly botany and ornithology. 

 From them she learned to skin birds and when we I'eturned to Camden in 

 the fall, I also became interested in natural history studies, and from that 

 day to this we both have retained our interest in birds. 



Our tield work in Carroll County was chiefly in the vicinity of Camden 

 and r.urlington ; however, from March. 188.",, to .July. 1885. my work was 

 such as took me. in buggy or sleigh, all over the comity. I was thus a tield 

 (III i»ractically every day continuously for nearly two and one-half years, 

 and thus had exceptional opportunities to observe the birds in every part of 

 the county, during all seasons and at all times of the day. Mrs. Evermann 

 was constantly and enthusiastically associated with me in all this work, 

 sometimes accompanying me on long trips over the county, more often 

 joining the short trips afield. She always joined in the study and identifi<'a- 

 tion of the specimens collected and did practically all the taxidermy work 

 incident to the preparation of the specimens. 



Among our students were several that became more or less interested in 

 birds and who assisted us in field observations and the collecting of speci- 

 mens. Among these I may mention particularly the following: First of all. 

 Ami. Addi.son. Sidney T.. and Otway C.. Sterling, four brothers living south- 

 west of Camden on Bachelor Run. all with a natural history "bent". Ami 

 and Addison, fine young boys they were, and promising yoinig naturalists. 



