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Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877) of Cleveland, Ohio, in a letter 

 dated 1857, published in 1874, mentions a number of Indiana birds. 



Dr. Elliott Coues in his Birds of the Northwest makes reference to some 

 Indiana birds. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan in the various editions of his Manual of Verte- 

 brates (1876-1900) has numerous Indiana references to birds. In 1879, 

 Dr. A. W. Brayton published in the Transactions of the State Horticultural 

 Society a catalogue of the birds of Indiana, with keys and descriptions. 

 This was the first important list of the birds of the entire state. 



In 1881 Edgar R. Quick recorded the occurrence near Brookville of Calh- 

 arista atrata and Chen hyperboreus, and in 1882, published some notes on 

 the winter birds in the vicinity of Brookville. In the same year Dr. J. 

 M. Wheaton published his large volume on the birds of Ohio in which there 

 are numerous Indiana references. 



Fletcher M. Noe of Indianapolis published brief notes on rare Indiana 

 birds in 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888 and 1890. 



In 1889, Maurice Thompson published in the Indiana Geological Survey 

 Report a preliminary sketch of the aquatic and shore birds of the Kankakee 

 region. Three years later R. Wes McBride published some notes on Indiana 

 birds; Prof. A. B. Ulrey published some notes on the American bittern; 

 James E. Gould had a note on the nesting of the bald eagle at English Lake; 

 and E. M. Kindle wrote of the arrival of some migratory birds in Johnson 

 County, Indiana. In 1893, U. O. Cox published a list of the birds of Ran- 

 dolph County, Indiana, and Mr. McBride published notes on the rose- 

 breasted grosbeak in Michigan and Indiana. 



In concluding the list of ornithologists who have added to our knowledge 

 of Indiana birds I must not fail to mention Mrs. Jane Louisa Hine who 

 died at her home at Sedan, Indiana, P'ebruary 11 of the present year, in 

 the eighty-fifth year of her age. Early in her long and useful life Mrs. Hine 

 became interested in birds. When the present writer was superintendent 

 of bird migration observers in Indiana and the southern peninsula of Michi- 

 gan during the eighties, Mrs. Hine was one of his most energetic and reliable 

 observers. She published numerous articles on birds in the Farmer's Guide, 

 of Huntington, Ind., and supplied many interesting notes to Mr. Butler 

 which he published in his Birds of Indiana. She also published in the Auk 

 in 1894, a very interesting article on the ruby-tlu*oated hummingbird. 



Herpetology 



Much good work has been done on the reptiles and batrachians of In- 

 diana. A little was done by Rafinesque, Say, and Le Sueur between 1818 

 and 1835; a little by Dr. Haymond between 1850 and 1870, after which the 

 field was left practically unworked until 1882 when the Reptiles and Amphi- 

 bians of Ohio by W. H. Smith, was published in Vol. IV of the Geological 



