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head of the department of geography in the Illinois State Normal School at 
Normal; Bessie O. Cushing (Mrs. D. C. Ridgley) ; Flora Hartley, now wife 
of Dr. Charles W. Greene, professor of physiology in the University of 
Missouri; Albert J. Woolman, for many years a science teacher in the high 
schools of South Bend and Duluth, later business man in Urbana, Illinois, 
who died in 1918; Thos. F. Fitzgibbon, now prominent educator, superin- 
tendents of schools, Muncie, Indiana; Cloudsley Rutter, for a number of 
years one of the most-able scientific assistants in the United States Fish 
Commission, whose death in 1903, deprived ichthyological science of one of 
its most promising young men; J. C. Cunningham, now prominent farmer 
and business man in Miami County; and W. D. Hamer, prominent lawyer 
at Huntington. Many others might be named. I must not forget to men- 
tion my life-long, most intimate friend and predecessor in the Indiana State 
Normal School, Dr. Oliver P. Jenkins who, though at DePauw University, 
frequently came over to Terre Haute, and many a delightful trip did we 
take together along the Wabash and its small tributaries in search of things 
in which we were both interested. Dr. Jenkins was also deeply interested in 
the birds of Vigo County, and at one time had in mind the publication of a 
report thereon. Mention must be made also of W. S. Blatchley who during 
the several years of his connection with the Terre Haute high school, gave 
much attention to the natural history of Vigo County. 
I regard the following annotated list as valuable chiefly because of the 
records of definite dates and places. To some, these may seem trivial and of 
little consequence, but to the future student of the migration, geographic dis- 
tribution, and habits of our birds, it is believed they will serve a useful pur- 
pose. 
A statement that a certain species was seen on a certain date in a certain 
place does not mean that it was not seen on many other dates and in other 
places ; it simply means that that particular note was not lost in the fire of 
1888. While these records are, in many instances, unrelated, they will, 
nevertheless, it is believed, prove useful. I have advisedly made the ree- 
ords as definite and detailed as possible as to dates, places, persons and cir- 
cumstances, in the belief that their value will thereby be enhanced. 
It is regretted that the Vigo and Monroe counties records are not more 
numerous, but it was the note-books of those counties which were most 
completely lost in the fire of 1888. 
I am glad to mention the considerable number of my former students and 
associates whose observations and assistance in other ways have contrib- 
uted to our knowledge of the birds of Indiana, and I take this opportunity 
to express my high appreciation of their interest and helpfulness. Without 
their comradeship afield, which gaye opportunity for discussion and ex- 
change of views, much indeed would have been lost. 
ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES. 
In the following annotated list of species the nomenclature and sequence 
agree with the last (third) edition of the Check-List of North American 
Birds published by the American Ornithologists’ Union in 1910. The species 
and subspecies are numbered consecutively. The number in parenthesis 
following the scientific name is the serial number of that species: in the 
Check-List. 
