igZ Y'EA.Q'E.VL, Plan for Recording Field Notes. \_k^ 



The heading ' Number of Indications of Mating ' might receive 

 numerous subdivisions Hke the following : singing, calling, cooing, 

 drumming, strutting, scraping, etc. ; but it is deemed inadvisable 

 to burden the sectional notes with these. All notes in regard to 

 the method of wooing should be recorded on the back of the form, 

 or in a book containing more extended field notes, to which ref- 

 erence may be made in the manner hereinafter suggested. 



The form herein given and recommended for these records is 

 somewhat similar to that proposed by Chapman, though it is much 

 more complete. For convenience in discussion we will divide the 

 form into three parts : headline spaces, marginal divisions, sections. 

 The headline spaces are respectively 5 mm., 7 mm., and 14 mm. 

 wide. The marginal divisions are 25 mm. long by 24 mm. wide. 

 The sections are 24 mm. long by 20 mm. wide, each being ruled 

 horizontally with fine lines 2 mm. apart, the sixth, seventh, and 

 eighth of the spaces thus made being divided vertically into three 

 parts. 



The first vertical column of the headline spaces should contain, 

 in the order named, the following : year, general locality, time out, 

 weather and temperature, prevailing wind, wind of the clay, rainfall 

 or snowfall, advance of vegetation, new insects abroad, remarks. 

 The spaces to the right of the year should contain the days of the 

 month, the month itself being written above the upper headline. 

 The remaining headline spaces should contain notes on the heading 

 found in their respective marginal spaces, such notes, if desirable, 

 being written- in the abbreviated form suggested in the outline. 



In the marginal divisions should be placed the names of the 

 species in the order observed. In the sections should be placed 

 the notes on such of these species as are observed during the day 

 indicated at the top of the vertical row. Each section will, there- 

 fore, contain as many of those notes found in the 'Outline of 

 Sectional Notes ' as are taken on any one species. The divisions 

 of each section are reserved for the following notes : the first, for 

 the exact locality ; the second and third, for the environments ; the 

 fourth, for the plumage ; the fifth, for the moult ; the ninth and 

 tenth, for the food of the young; the eleventh and twelfth, for the 

 food of the adults. The area included in the middle spaces of 

 divisions six, seven, and eight is reserved for the 'Number of 



