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a card with pencil in the front coat pocket, where it is so 

 accessible that the matter of recording individuals becomes 

 almost mechanical. 



The cost of my cards printed on good white bristol board 

 was $4.50 per thousand. Care must be exercised that the 

 right sized type be used in order that a sufficient space be 

 left available for making the records. 



Members of the Tennessee Ornithological Society are 

 using this system altogether and are enthusiastic over it. The 

 user of course may carry out his " office records " in as great 

 detail as he likes, the cards being offered merely as a firm 

 basis for the development of more voluminous notes should 

 the observer have the time. 



Nashville, Tenn. 



THE SAVING OF A POND, AND THE RESULT- , 

 ING BIRD LIST. 



By Howard C. Brown. 



One windy day during a heavy snowfall, in the spring of 

 1917, the telephone in my father's real estate office tingled. 

 When answered, an excited woman began talking. Her name 

 was Mrs. ■ , and she had just been told by a person liv- 

 ing near Schneider's Pond that someone was there cutting all 

 of the willows. So she had phoned to my father as a real 

 estate agent, to find out if he could tell her who owned the 

 property, so that the cutting could be stopped at once. Fur- 

 ther explanation for stopping the cutting of willows was quite 

 essential, and it was speedily given. 



" You see," she continued, " that place is a perfect rendez- 

 vous for birds, and it would be a shame to destroy it. I 

 thought that if I could learn who the owner was, perhaps 

 he would stop it. For it must be stopped, and at once." 



My father not knowing the owner, but sufficiently inter- 

 ested in any project which would benefit the birds, proposed 

 that they make a trip to the Pond at once, to have an inter- 

 view with the chopper. So out into the snowstorm he went 



