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made a small collection of nests and eggs, which doubtless would haye 
grown to considerable size and value if the boys had lived, but they 
both died while yet in their teens. The other two brothers also were good 
observers and I am indebted to them, particularly to Sidney, for many 
records of rare or uncommon birds noted. Frank C. Porter, a cousin of 
the Sterling boys, and living on a farm near them, also was interested in 
birds and contributed many observations of value. I spent many a day 
pleasantly with these boys hunting in the Deer Creek bottoms. My nephew, 
Edwin C. Evermann, of Burlington. another promising young naturalist who 
died while yet a boy in 1888, made a small collection of bird eggs which is 
now in the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences. Two other 
Burlington boys who showed some interest in birds were the brothers, 
William and Dalton Wright now of Los Angeles, California. Still others 
who have communicated to me observations or data of value, or specimens. 
may be named: D. C. Ridgley, now professor of geography in the state 
normal school at Normal, Illinois; Harry C. Van Der Volgen of west of 
Pittsburg; James Milton Beck (my brother-in-law), of Burlington; Miss Ava 
Evermann (my niece), then of Burlington, now of Kokomo; and Frank C. 
Groninger, one of our students at Camden, now a prominent lawyer of 
Indianapolis. And recently my young great nephew, Donovan Beck of Bur- 
lington, has sent me notes and specimens. 
Favorite collecting places about Camden were the following: Along Deer 
Creek in the woods from the Vandalia railroad to Leonard's mill, a distance 
of two or three miles; the woods and hillside thicket at the southeast edge 
of Camden; the Deer Creek bottoms from Camden to below the Porter mill, 
a distance of perhaps three miles; along the lower course of Bachelor Run; 
in the heavy forest on the Wise farm southwest of Camden; on and about 
the Wm. R. Stewart farm southwest of Camden; in the open woods just 
north of the Frank Thomas farm south of town; in the woods northwest 
and north of the town; and about the Armstrong pond at the south edge 
of Camden. 
The localities about Burlington most frequented were the following: My 
father’s farm and the farms adjoining it, about a mile south of town; along 
Wild Cat Creek from a mile below Burlington to the dam about the same 
distance above town: and the Maple Swamp near Lexington. Many ob- 
servations were made also along the road between Camden and Delphi and 
along the Wabash River near Delphi. 
MONROE COUNTY. 
From August, 1881, to March, 1883, and again from July, 1885, to July, 
1886, while students in Indiana University, we devoted much of our spare 
time to the birds of Monroe County, particularly of the region within a 
radius of 15 or 20 miles of Bloomington. During those years our pleasure 
and enthusiasm in ornithological studies were increased through associa- 
tion with several other students of kindred tastes. Among these may be 
mentioned the following: Willis S. Blatchley, afterward teacher of biology 
in the Terre Haute high school and later the able State Geologist of Indiana 
for many years; Charles H. Bollman, a very promising young naturalist 
interested chiefly in myriopods but also deeply interested in birds and fishes, 
