456 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Further Notes on Indiana Birds. 



Amos W. Butler. 



For a knowledge of the animal life of the region within the present limits 

 of Indiana, in the earlj^ days of our history, we are indebted to the early 

 travelers like Col. Geo. Croghan (1765), to the pioneers who made records 

 and to the early naturalists including Alexander Wilson (1808); John J. 

 Audubon (1827-1840). 



It was not until Dr. Rufus Haymond jjublished his first contribution in 

 1856 that any one attempted a list of the birds of the state. (Birds of S. E. 

 Ind. Proe. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sei. 1868, pp. 286-298). That was succeeded 

 by his later paper in the report of the Geological Survey of Indiana in 1869 

 (pp. 209-335). 



Other authors to whom we are indebted for important conti'ibutions in 

 the next few years were Robert Ridgway, Avhose parents lived for a time near 

 Wheatland, Knox County. Dr. David Starr Jordan, whose manual of ver- 

 tel)rates in 1876. afforded the student of back boned animals in this region 

 a most helpful aid. E. W. Nelson, Dr. Frank W. Langdon, William Brew- 

 ster, Dr. J. A. Allen and Dr. Barton W. Evermann. That brings us down to 

 1879. In that year appeared the first attempt to catalogue the birds of 

 Indiana by Dr. Alembert W. Brayton. (A catalogue of the Birds of Indiana, 

 Trans. Ind. Ilort. Soe. 1879, pp. 87-165.) It was a timely work and a val- 

 uable contril^ution. 



Following this came a notable increase in the number of publications 

 each year on Indiana birds. These are given in the bibliography in the Report 

 of the State Geologist for 1897, page 532. My own first catalogue of the 

 birds of Indiana appeared in 1S90 in the transactions of the same society 

 that published Brayton's list el<!ven years before. (Trans. Ind. Hort. Soc. 

 1890. Appendix C. pp. 1-135.) This was followed in 1897 by "The Birds 

 of Indiana" published in the report of the State Geologist for that year, pp. 

 515-1187. 



Since that time the writer has endeavored to presenfto this Academy re- 

 ports of additional species occurring in the state, together with notes of special 

 interest which he thought worthy to be called to your attention. In accord- 

 ance with that purpose the following eight papers have been presented and 

 printed in tht; Academy's proceedings. 



Notes on Indiana Birds, A. W. Butler, 1899, p. 149-151. 



Some rare Indiana Birds, A. W. Butler, 1902, p. 95-99. 



Conditions Effecting the Distribution of Birds in Indiana, A. W. Butler, 

 1903, p. 180-189. 



