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(c) Contemporary and Correlative Phenomena. 



The Committee desires that the data under this head be as 

 full and complete as possible, and requests exact information 

 upon : — 



1. The date at which the first toad was seen. 



2. The date at which the first frog is heard. 



3. The date at which the first tree-toad or "peeper " is heard. 



4. The dates at which certain mammals and reptiles enter 

 upon and emerge from the state of hybernation. 



5. The dates at which various insects are first seen. 



6. The dates of the flowering of various plants. 



7. The dates of the leafing and falling of the leaves of various 

 trees and shrubs. 



8. The dates of the breaking up and disappearance of the ice 

 in rivers and lakes in spring, and of the freezing over of the 

 same in the fall. 



The Chairman of Committee on Migration is Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, of Locust Grove, Lewis County, New York. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Method of recording Observations. — With regard to Mr. Harvie 

 Brown's corjumunication on a more uniform method of recording observations 

 (p. 60), I think that the use of the suggested form would lead to useful 

 and valuable results which might not be obtained in any other way. There 

 can be no doubt as to the value of such a system. At the same time 

 I think that its exclusive adoption would probably cripple original 

 observations ; and I thoroughly appreciate your remarks as to such 

 formality detracting from the pleasure derivable from more original com- 

 munications. I therefore hope that original observations may be kept up 

 as at present, and that the suggested form, or possibly a sliglitiy more 

 elaborated one, may be brought into use. Would it not answer the purpose 

 fully for the filled-up forms, or a synopsis of them, to be published in 

 ' The Zoologist ' annually ? I am incHned to think that a full and detailed 

 synopsis of the forms, complete for a year, would be more convenient and 

 useful than a number of untabulated forms in each number of the Journal. 

 —J. E Palmer (Lyons Mills, Strafford, Co. Kildare). 



Supplement to the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire.— Messrs. W. 



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