. Bird lore . Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah. Vermont.— Dr. F. H. Knowlton, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. Virginia.— Dr. W. C. Rives, 1723 I street, Washington, D. C. Washington.— Samuel F. Rathbun, Seattle, Wash. West Virginia. — Dr. W. C. Rives, 1723 I street, Washington, D. C. Wisconsin.— H. Nehrling, Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis. Wyoming.— Dr. Mortimer Jesurun, Douglas, Wyo. CAAADA British Columbia.— John Fannin, Provincial Museum, Victoria, Manitoba.— Ernest Seton-Thompson, 144 Fifth avenue. New York City. New Brunswick.— Montague Chamberlain, Harvard University, Cambridge,


. Bird lore . Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah. Vermont.— Dr. F. H. Knowlton, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. Virginia.— Dr. W. C. Rives, 1723 I street, Washington, D. C. Washington.— Samuel F. Rathbun, Seattle, Wash. West Virginia. — Dr. W. C. Rives, 1723 I street, Washington, D. C. Wisconsin.— H. Nehrling, Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis. Wyoming.— Dr. Mortimer Jesurun, Douglas, Wyo. CAAADA British Columbia.— John Fannin, Provincial Museum, Victoria, Manitoba.— Ernest Seton-Thompson, 144 Fifth avenue. New York City. New Brunswick.— Montague Chamberlain, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Nova Scotia.— Harry Piers, Stanyan, Northwest Arm, Halifax, N. S. Ontario, Eastern. — James H. Fleming, Rush Road, Toronto, Ont. Ontario, Western. — T. Mcllwraith, Hamilton, Ont. Quebec.— E. D. Wintle, 189 St. James street, Montreal, Can. MEA7COE, W. Nelson, Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. WEST lADIESC. B. Corv, 160 Boylston street, Boston, On Methods in Teaching Ornithology atOberlin College BY LYNDS JONES Instructor in Zoology in Oberlin College LHIS article has not to do with ideal methods in teach-ing people about birds. Ideal methods presupposeideal conditions, which cannot be expected if thesubject be taught as a part of a large college cur-riculum and as a part of the teachers work. Thesubjoined remarks will therefore be rather an expla-nation of the methods employed under the conditions named than asa statement of what the writer hopes that he may some time be ableto realize. There are taught, in Oberlin College, three courses in orni-thology. The beginning course, which meets for recitation threetimes a week during the spring term, aims at a general introductionto the subject, with special stress laid upon field familiarity with alimited number of the more common local species as a basis forfurther study. The advanced course, with two meetings a week forrecitation, undertakes economic and philosophi


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