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NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF CARROLL, MONROE, AND VIGO COUN- 
TIES, INDIANA. 
BARTON WARREN EVERMANN, 
Director of the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences. 
It has been my aim to bring together and put on record in this paper 
such notes as I now have concerning the birds of Carroll, Monroe, and Vigo 
counties, Indiana. I began 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 fire which destroyed the Indiana State Normal School build- 
ing on March 8 of that year. Fortunately, some of my note books were 
saved. The present paper is based chiefly upon the notes contained in them 
and such as were made subsequent to that date. 
CARROLL COUNTY. 
Carroll County was my home during boyhood and until August, 1879. I 
was in the county during part of the summers of 1881 and 1882, and almost 
continuously from March, 1883, to July, 1885. Since 1885. I have in some 
years been able to spend from a day to a week or more in the county. 
Up to 1877, my interest in birds was merely such as is taken by most 
country boys with a more or less decided “bent” for natural history. In 
the spring and summer of 1877, my wife, Meadie Hawkins Evermann, was 
a student of Dr. David Starr Jordan’s at Butler 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 returned 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 field work in Carroll County was chiefly in the vicinity of Camden 
and Burlington; however, from March, 1883, to July, 1885, my work was 
such as took me, in buggy or sleigh, all over the county. I was thus afield 
on practically 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 identifica- 
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, Addison, 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 young naturalists, 
