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THE YOUNG OOLOGISl'. 



T. Seton, Assinaboia, via Carberry, Mani- 

 toba. 



Newf ovmdland— Supt. , James P. How- 

 ley, St. John's, Newfoundland. 



British Columbia — Supt., John Fannin, 

 Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. 



Manitoba— Supt. , Prof. W. W. Cooke, 

 Caddo, Indian Territory. 



Quebec and the Maritime Provinces— 

 Supt., Montague Chamberlain, St. John, 

 New Brunswick. 



Ontario— Supt., Thomas Mcllwraith, 

 Hamilton, Ontario. 



New England — Supt., John H. Sage, 

 Portland, Conn. 



Atlantic District (New York, Pennsylva- 

 nia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 

 Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina) 

 —Supt., Dr. A. K. Fisher, Sing Sing, New 

 York. 



Middle-Eastern District (Southern Mich- 

 igan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee east -of the Tennessee 

 river, Alabama, Georgia, Florida) — Supt., 

 Dr. J. M. Wheaton, Columbus, Ohio. 



Mississippi Valley (Dakota, Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, Northern Peninsula of Michi- 

 gan, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, 

 Missouri, Indian Territory, Arkansas, the 

 small portions of Kentucky and Tennessee 

 west of the Tennessee river, Texas, Louis- 

 iana, Mississippi)— Supt., Prof. W. W. 

 Cooke, Caddo, Indian Territory. 



Rocky Mountain District (Idaho, Mon- 

 tana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, 

 New Mexico) — Supt. , Dr. Edgar A. Mearns. 



Pacific; District (Washington, Oregon, 

 California, Nevada) — Supt., L. Belding, 

 San Diego, California. 



Light-house Division — At present in 

 charge of the chairman. 



The home of each observer is called a 

 station, and is recorded by number upon 

 the books of the committee. The commit- 

 tee particularlj^ requests that all persons 

 who read this circular, and are willing to 

 aid in the work, will immediately commu- 

 nicate with the superintendents of their re- 

 spective districts. 



It is the duty of each superintendent to 

 exert himself to the utmost to increase the 



number of observers in his district; to an- 

 swer the questions they may put to him 

 concerning the details of the work, etc. ; to 

 collect at frequent intervals the product of 

 their labors; to ascertain from these data 

 the whereabouts of certain species in win- 

 ter, and the times of leaving their winter 

 homes; to determine if possible the number 

 and extent of the chief avenues of migra- 

 tion within the limits of his district, and 

 the average rate of speed at which the dif- 

 ferent species travel ; to locate the breeding 

 areas of the summer residents; and, finally, 

 to submit the result of the season's work to 

 the chairman of the committee. The chair- 

 man shall, in turn, arrange, condense and 

 systematize the material received from the 

 superintendents of the several districts, 

 and shall present to the Union the fruits of 

 the joint labors of all the collaborators, to- 

 gether with any comments, deductions or 

 generalizations he may have made upon 

 the same. 



INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLABOKATORS. 



The data collected may conveniently be 

 arranged in three general classes: «. Orni- 

 thological Phenomena, b. Meteorological 

 Phenomena, c. Contemporary and Cor- 

 relative Phenomena. 



{a) Ornitlwlogical Phenomena. 



Each observer is requested to prepare, at 

 his earliest convenience, a complete list of 

 the birds known to occur in the vicinity of 

 his station, and to indicate (by the abbre- 

 viations enclosed in parentheses) to which 

 of the following five categories each species 

 pertains : 



1. Permanent Besidents, or those that are 

 found regularly throughout the entire 

 year (R). 



2. Wilder Visitants, or those that occur 

 onlj^ during the winter season, passing- 

 north in the spring ( WV). 



3. Transient Visitants, or those that oc- 

 cur onlj' during the migrations, in spring 

 and fall (TV). 



4. Slimmer Besidents, or those that are 

 known to breed, but which depart south- 

 ward before winter (SR). 



5. Accidental Visitants, or stragglei's 

 from remote districts (AV). 



