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tions, and though at times I have wavered in this path of virtue, 

 still I have held to it for a great portion of the time in a fairly 

 laudable manner. At first I kept the record in a laborious way of 

 my own devising, but after sundry experiments I have reduced the 

 method to a fairly practical basis. The method is an extension of 

 that which Mr. Chapman gives in his 'Handbook of Birds, ' and I 

 take the liberty of giving it in full, in the hope that it may be of 

 service to some one. 



For the purpose I get a blank book of the kind usually sold 

 under the name of ' Record, ' with pages ruled and numbered ; each 

 page measuring about 8 x lo inches. Page No. i I reserve for an. 

 index of abbreviations. Pages 2 and 3, which face each other, I 

 rule off in the following manner : If the book is for the present 

 year, I put at the top of page 2, "January, igoo." I then divide 

 all of page No. 2, and the left hand half of page No. 3, into six- 

 teen equal vertical columns, one for each of the first sixteen days 

 of January. The right hand half of page No. 3 I leave for notes. 

 Then I divide each of the sixteen columns by a fine line down the 

 center. Next I hinge to the left-hand edge of page No. 2, a 'folder'' 

 of heavy paper about three inches wide and as long as the page. 

 This can be folded into the book when not in use. 



Now as to the method of use. Suppose that on the first day of 

 January I saw no birds of any kind. I simply leave the first column 

 of page No. 2, labeled at its top "Monday, ist," blank. On Tuesday 

 on my way to the college I saw a Downy Woodpecker in Zion Hill 

 Cemetery, I heard several Crows in the distance, and I saw five or 

 six Juncos on the college grounds. I open out the folder attached 

 to page No. 2, and write on it, opposite the first ruled line of the 

 page, the name "Downy Woodpecker." Now I follow the line 

 across till I come to the vertical column headed "Tuesday, 2nd." 

 In the left-hand portion I write "i" to indicate the number of 

 Woodpeckers seen, and in the right-hand portion I write "Z. H.," 

 to indicate that it was seen on Zion Hill. Then on the folder, op- 

 posite the second horizontal line, I write "Crow," and in the corre- 

 sponding left-hand portion of the column for Tuesday, 2nd, I enter 

 "h. sev.," to indicate that I simply heard several, and I do not, of 

 course, enter any special locality. In the same manner I enter next 

 "Junco," "5-6," "C.G." (College Grounds). 



Of course, in sixteen days, pages 2 and 3 are used up, so I 

 simply rule off pages 4 and 5 in the same manner into sixteen 

 •columns, which will of course accommodate the remaining days of 

 January, with one column to spare. In the same way I lay out 

 pages 6 and 7, and 8 and g, for Februar}'. Inasmuch as the hori- 



