CHAPTER X 



MY BEST DAY'S RECORD— 

 64 SPECIES 



It is always interesting to try to beat 

 one's record as to the number of birds 

 seen in a day. In the spring of 1909 I 

 had a record of twenty-eight species of 

 birds. Later I raised it to thirty-two, 

 then to thirty-eight, and finally, in July, 

 I saw fifty-four kinds of birds in one 

 day. That was the largest record for 

 the year. I beat this in 1910 by seeing 

 fifty-seven birds. All these records, 

 however, were beaten on May 14, 191 1, 

 by my seeing or hearing sixty-four 

 species of birds. It was a beautiful 

 warm day. In the early morning the 

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