Front Cover image with caption from Copyright Page: Grace McCormac French wrote many articles for the newspapers of the Yamhill County and Portland area about birds; her column "Signs of the Seasons" was an irregular feature in the McMinnville "News-Reporter" from 1935-1952. She also gave many lectures and was the Conservation Chairman of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs. The cover illustrates some of these activities; the lower entry was her letterhead while she was Conservation Chairman.
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Swallows are Back
To the Editor: While we were eating Sunday breakfast a telephone message
came announcing the arrival of the swallows in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Coleman on the shore of Carlton lake. This year two tree swallows were the
first arrivals. Some years the earliest date is for the violet-green swallow.
My spring records for the first swallows began in 1915.
It might interest you to know that I have another albino to add to my list.
It was a junco with white body and pearl gray head and tail. It fed in the yard
between December 22 and January 17.
Grace McC. French, P. O. Box 471, Dayton.
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Signs of the Seasons by Grace McCormac French
The spring migration of the birds always attracts much attention but little
seems to be written about their fall flight south. Of course, we hear about the
geese, because they travel in noisy flocks, but for a student of birds who keeps
on the alert, there are many interesting experiences in August and September . . .
[only part of article was included on Front Cover]
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Mrs. French on Albino Birds
In commenting lately upon the suburban advent of an albino robin it was
suggested on this page that such birds are more or less made outcast by their
normally feathered relatives. This particular specimen, for instance, never was
seen with companions. But a letter from the bird woman, Grace MacCormac French,
who used to keep tabs on the swallows near Carlton, but now lives at Dayton,
tells us that she has known albino robins . . .
[only part of article was included on Front Cover]
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Garden Club Hears Bird Lore Talk by Mrs. French
Mrs. Grace MacCormac French, recognized as an authority on birds, spoke
before the McMinnville Garden Club at their meeting Monday, March 17. In
addition to speaking on the day's topic, "How to Attract Birds", Mrs. French
told of many of her observations and amusing incidents which occurred during the
thirty-two years they resided on . . .
[only part of article was included on Front Cover]
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[letterhead]
Mrs. Alfred J. French
Conservation Chairman
Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs
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Correspondence concerning manuscripts for publication in this series should be addressed to Gahmken Press, P.O. Box 1467, Newport, Oregon 97365.
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Cataloging Information
Bayer, Range D.
A guide to the bird notes of Grace McCormac French of Yamhill County,
Oregon.
(Studies in Oregon Ornithology; No. 2)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Birds--Oregon. 2. French, Grace McCormac. I. Title. II. Series.
QL684.06B38 598.29795
ISBN 0-939819-01-5
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This monograph gives a brief biography of Grace McCormac French (1881-1957), who was the "Bird Woman" of the Carlton and Dayton area in Yamhill County from about 1925 to her death. She wrote articles for newspapers, gave talks on radio stations, and spoke at many clubs about birds and conservation. Although it was not feasible to summarize her 45 volumes of bird notes in this monograph, the arrivals and/or departures of 43 bird species she noted in Yamhill County are included as are a partially annotated listing of the 116 bird species she reported. Records of the people she came into contact with are also incorporated, so this monograph gives details about some of the people involved in Oregon ornithology near Portland in her time. The purpose of this monograph was only to be a "Guide" to Grace's work. Hopefully, someone will use this guide to go through her notebooks and work up her bird notes, so that we can learn from what she saw and faithfully recorded.
Keywords: Oregon Birds, Oregon Ornithological History, Yamhill County.
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After I searched through all the notebooks to be sure that they were all by her, I had no doubt that there was much useful information in them. I also became worried that her voluminous work, which she had tried to save by giving to the Museum, would sink back into oblivion if I didn't do something.
I decided to write this "Guide" to serve as an index to her work and field notes. This "Guide" can help the next person that comes along who is interested in the birds of Yamhill County or the Willamette Valley to know not only that her field notes exist but also what is in them. This "Guide" also gives information about Grace French herself, so that the reader may gain somewhat of an idea of her times.
I hope that this "Guide" will serve to publicize French's efforts. My attempt to save French's notes from oblivion would not have been possible without the help of two others. I am grateful to Dr. Joe Beatty of the Biology Program at Oregon State University for taking time to look for field notebooks in the now nearly defunct Museum of Natural History. I also thank Dr. Paul Farber of OSU's Department of General Science; Dr. Farber has established an Archive for the History of Science and Technology, which is where French's notes are now deposited.
I am also thankful to Judy Sprauer and Marilyn Guin of the Hatfield Marine Science Center Library for kindly obtaining newspaper articles about Grace French.
Range D. Bayer
Carmel Knoll, Lincoln County, Oregon
26 May 1986
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CORRECTIONS TO ORIGINAL PRINTED VERSION:
1) Black Brant: I originally noted that I knew of no Brant records for the
Willamette Valley. I since have seen records of stray individuals,
not thousands as she reported on p. *36. I now note that Brant have
been reported in the Willamette Valley.
2) Eurasian Starling was changed to European Starling.
3) p. 8 footnote for Golden-crowned Sparrows: changed "but in other
winter" to "but in other years."
4) p. 37 reference: F. W. Bailey was changed to F. M. Bailey.
5) several spelling errors were discovered and changed with a spelling
checker.
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Title Page------------------------------------------------------------- *i Copyright Page--------------------------------------------------------- *ii Abstract--------------------------------------------------------------- *iii Preface---------------------------------------------------------------- *iii Table of Contents------------------------------------------------------ *iv Introduction----------------------------------------------------------- *1 Mini-biography of Grace McCormac French-------------------------------- *1 Unsearched Biographical Sources---------------------------------------- *4 Evaluation of Grace McCormac French's Work----------------------------- *4 French's Arrival and Departure Dates for Selected Species-------------- *7 French's Species List for Yamhill County------------------------------- *12 Appendix I. Index to French's Notebooks with and withOUT Field Notes-- *15 Appendix II. Synopsis of French's Notebooks with Field Notes---------- *18 Appendix III. Synopsis of French's Notebooks withOUT Field Notes------ *32 Appendix IV. French's Migration Reports for the Biological Survey----- *34 Appendix V. Current Scientific Names for Current Common Names-------- *36 References------------------------------------------------------------- *37 Index------------------------------------------------------------------ *38
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The casual reader can glean a lot of details about French's work from this "Guide" without having to consult her notebooks or read the lengthy Appendices in this "Guide." But for those readers that wish to dig deeper into her work, this "Guide" (especially the Appendices) serves as an introduction to the contents of her notebooks. Before this "Guide," her 45 notebooks sat heaped in a large cardboard box; there was no clue as to what was in the notebooks.
I hope that this "Guide" may serve not only to make known some of her work, but also to make it much easier for someone to compile and write up her notes so that we all can learn from French's efforts.
Grace was born in Marshfield, Oregon on 2 June 1881. Her father was Dr. James T. McCormac, who was a hospital surgeon at Coos Bay for 35 years. While in college, he roomed with Dr. William T. Hornaday, who became a prominent ornithologist and a director of the New York Zoological Park. Hornaday's interest in birds had been transferred to Dr. McCormac, who in turn shared his interest and knowledge with Grace. Grace's mother was Hattie Bay.
Grace was graduated from Marshfield High School in the Coos Bay area and St. Helens Hall in Portland.
Grace married Alfred Jason French on 21 September (or November) 1904 in Marshfield, Coos County. They moved to Orland, California in 1907 but returned to Oregon in 1912 to live on a 220 acre farm near Carlton in Yamhill County. He was a farmer and was supportive of her work with birds. He was also one of her prime observers of birds, and she recorded a lot of his observations. He had an interest in rocks and minerals and made several extensive collection trips. Grace did not appear to share his interest in geology and stayed home during some of his trips. Alfred and Grace did not appear to have any children.
Grace did not really start taking field notes until 1915, when she was 34. Around the Carlton farm, she put up about 50 bird houses to attract birds and, when she could, she carried opera glasses and a notebook in her housedress pocket when she went outside. She seemed to spend much of her time inside working on household chores up to 1944; she did not work outside very much. She did much of her birding while looking out the windows or while walking to the mailbox. However, she did take many walks about her place with the sole purpose of looking for birds and plants.
During World War II in 1941-1943, she and her husband were recruited (along with many other local residents) to look for Japanese aircraft at an Observation Post near Carlton. They never saw any enemy aircraft, but Grace watched a lot of birds while she was on duty to help pass the time. Some of her articles about her bird watching at the Observation Post appeared in the Portland "Oregonian" and were read over KOIN, a Portland radio station.
She and her husband remained on the farm until June 1944, when they moved to Dayton in Yamhill County.
Besides birds, she also was very interested in wild flowers and took a correspondence course in Botany in 1916. She kept notes on the presence of lady slippers, used books about wild flowers, and met Dr. Helen Gilkey (Professor of Botany at Oregon State College [hereafter referred to as Oregon State University]). Gilkey encouraged Grace to write articles about her work with wild flowers. There is no indication that Grace wrote any articles about flowers, though, except occasionally in her "Signs of the Season" column in the McMinnville "News-Reporter." Grace has many pressed flowers among her notebook pages; unfortunately, the date or location of the collection is not given for them.
++++ start of p. *2 in SOO No. 2 (s2.htm)| Contents| Index|She clearly was not isolated, since she was active in several groups. In 1917 and 1921, she was a migration observer for the Biological Survey, which was the predecessor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She was also a Director of the Oregon Wildlife Federation in 1936-1938. Grace also served as Conservation Chairman of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs from about 1920 to 1928, and perhaps later. She was also active in Grange work, and was a member of the Fernwood Grange for 38 years. She was much involved with the Oregon Audubon Society (hereafter referred to as the Portland Audubon Society), and she was also a member of the American Ornithologist's Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society. She was also a long-time member of the St. Barnabas Episcopal church.
Grace met many people involved with the study of birds or conservation work. Through the Portland Audubon Society she either met or was familiar with H.M. DuBois, Willard A. Eliot, William L. and Irene Finley, Harold S. Gilbert, R. Bruce Horsfall and his wife, Stanley G. Jewett, and William S. and Mary Raker. Other professional or amateur Oregon ornithologists she met included J.C. Braly, R.E. Dimick, A.S. Einarsen, Reed Ferris, and Ira Gabrielson. She had newspaper clippings in her notebooks about Olive Barber, A.G. Prill, and Alex and Rosaline Walker (who were other amateur naturalists active in her time), so she knew of them also. She also travelled to California where she met Joseph Grinnell (the most famous ornithologist of the west coast in her time) and Harold C. Bryant and to British Columbia where she talked with Ian McTaggart Cowan.
Grace also did a lot of reading to keep in touch with what was going on outside Oregon. She not only had her own library, but she read Auk and the Condor, published by the American Ornithologist's Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society, respectively. She also read Bird-Lore, which was the American Birds of her time.
Through her club and grange activities and through her many newspaper articles and several radio talks, Grace was well known in western Oregon from about 1925-1945. In March 1929 in a Portland "Oregonian" column, she was said to be "Oregon's best-known woman naturalist..." She was also listed in Capitol's Who's Who in Oregon through 1949; a feat not achieved by many women of her time.
Of all the people she met that were involved in nature and conservation, William S. Raker of the Portland Audubon Society clearly had the greatest impact on her life. Raker was a go-getter who worked particularly hard with Camp Fire Girl projects, but he was also a great inspiration to others to become involved in public speaking or writing. After his death in 1938, she wasn't as active in Boy and Girl Scouts or in speaking to civic groups as she had been before.
In 1916 at the age of 35, she gave her first lecture to the Portland Audubon Society. Over the years, she gave at least 12 other talks to them. Although she was a member of the American Ornithologist's Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society and attended at least one Cooper Ornithological Society Annual Meeting, her closest ties were clearly to the Portland Audubon Society, which was over 40 miles away from her farm. They made at least 7 field trips to the French's farm, and she was a field trip leader on some of the trips. She also attended some of their meetings, even if she was not a speaker. She was a Director for the Portland Audubon Society in at least 1924 and also served their Society in other capacities.
All told, she gave 66 public lectures from 1916 to 1952, with as many as 7 talks given in a year. She probably even gave more, since she didn't list all of them in her notebook. Besides speaking at the Portland Audubon Society, she also spoke at Oregon State University, schools, granges, the Oregon State Game Commission, and various clubs as well as to the Boy and Girl Scouts.
Additionally, she gave at least 5 talks over radio stations, mostly located in the Portland area. She spoke on bird study, natural history, and farm/hunter problems. The contents of one of these radio talks has been preserved (French 1924).
++++ start of p. *3 in SOO No. 2 (s2.htm)| Contents| Index|Grace was also quite an active writer for newspapers. Her material was given in at least 11 "Wild Life Lines" columns in the Portland "Oregonian," and she wrote at least 50 "Signs of the Season" columns for the McMinnville "News-Reporter" from 1935 to 1952. She was also often briefly mentioned in these papers and in the Carlton and Dayton newspapers for her other activities. She was said to have contributed to the "Oregon Journal," but no clippings from that paper were in her notebooks. Most of her "Signs of the Season" columns appeared after June 1944, when she and her husband moved to Dayton, and she was freed from farm chores.
Clearly her most important published work was her article "A Farm Woman Speaks," which appeared originally in five installments in the "Wild Life Lines" column, starting on 12 May 1928. The "Oregonian" paid her $11 for this article, but the significance of the article was not that Grace was paid for it, but the stir and notoriety it received. This article brought out the deep problems between hunters and farmers. Hunters at that time had no respect for farmers. Hunters would trespass, leave gates open, and shoot indiscriminately. People and livestock were often shot by mistake. Even if farmers posted no trespassing signs on their property, there were some hunters who would go ahead and trespass. Grace's article was an attack on the discourteous hunter. Her article was reprinted by the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs and the Portland Audubon Society (French 1929) and was distributed widely in Oregon. Her article also drew nation-wide attention from hunter's groups in the east and from the "Christian Science Monitor." As a result of her article and talks about farmer/hunter problems, the problems were well aired, and there were changes in laws and hunter's attitudes, so that the rights of farmers were not ignored.
Grace was not an armchair theorist in the farmer/hunter problems. She went out and posted "No Trespassing" signs around the French farm and directly confronted hunters that ignored the signs and trespassed. One afternoon in 1936, she was so irate that she walked around her fields with a police whistle, hooting periodically to warn the hunters that she was there.
Besides her speaking and newspaper writing, Grace also wrote poetry. In 1924, she considered naming a book of her poetry Wing Shadows, and she had a poem ("Coos Bay") appear on the front page of the Los Angeles "Times." In 1928, she had an address for an editor of a poetry publication, but she did not indicate if she sent them anything. In 1935, she read some of her poetry at a Girl Scout tea, and in 1939 her poem "The Geese are Flying" appeared in her column in the McMinnville "News-Reporter." Although she mentioned having a notebook for poetry, she did not include that notebook with the others that she gave Oregon State University in 1956.
In July 1924, Grace indicated that she was writing a book (tentatively named A Farmer's Wife and the Birds) about her bird observations. She talked about her book to Stanley G. Jewett and staff at Oregon State University, University of Oregon, and British Columbia Provincial Museum. She appears to have received much encouragement to write her book, but no actual assistance in doing so. She typed up part of her book in 1938 or 1939 and she updated the part of the book dealing with arrivals and departures in 1943-1945. But after 1945, she appears to have completely given up, and she never finished her book. In 1956, she gave her compilation of some of her observations (particularly arrival dates) and drafts for part of the sections of her book to the Museum of Natural History at Oregon State University. This material is contained in her notebooks 43-45 (see Appendix III).
The reason why she never finished her book is unknown. She seems to have had the time to do so, and she appears to have been in good health long enough to finish it. Probably, she was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of her bird field notes. Writing newspaper articles does not prepare one for dealing with the amount of material she had to deal with. She may have tried to include everything she noted, rather than paring her work down to something that was finishable. She lived in a day without word processors, and she either was not advised or she did not take the advice to limit her book to just a subset of her field notes. She also does not appear to have been a writer who had learned her craft well. For instance, her typed section on Lazuli Buntings (which is given verbatim in Appendix II) has many grammatical errors and has extraneous material in it that detracts from a "flow" that is necessary for the ordinary reader. It also has many run-on sentences; she needed more commas. The writing about the Lazuli Bunting was poor enough that it probably failed to impress any one she showed it to.
++++ start of p. *4 in SOO No. 2 (s2.htm)| Contents| Index|After 1950, she no longer took field notes, and it appears that she didn't work on her book anymore. In 1956, she evidently decided to try to salvage something from her field notes by donating them and her library of bird books to the Museum of Natural History in the Department of Zoology at Oregon State University. Perhaps, she hoped that somebody could take them and transform them into the book that she couldn't.
This hasn't happened, however, as they were forgotten, and it a wonder that they were not thrown out. In May 1986, they were discovered, forgotten, in a corner of a storage room and have now been placed in the Archive for the History of Science and Technology under the jurisdiction of Dr. Paul Farber of the Department of General Science at OSU.
After being in failing health for several years, Grace died on 24 April 1957 at her Dayton home; she was survived by her husband, at home, and her brother Fred McCormac in Berkeley, California.
Grace also received Bird-Lore and may be mentioned there. It appears that she had at least one article in Nature Magazine, so that magazine ought to be searched for articles by her. Finally, she was a member of the American Ornithologist's Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society; the years of her membership can be gleaned by looking in the yearly membership rolls in the Auk and the Condor, respectively.
If her family can be located, her correspondence and poetry may also be found. Her correspondence undoubtedly contains letters from other Oregon naturalists.
EVALUATION.--This evaluation is of Grace's skills as an ornithologist, not as a newspaper writer or public speaker, which she was also. Since she did not publish any papers in scientific journals and did not collect birds or bird eggs, this evaluation has to be based on my reading of her field notes.
Grace's field notes were most complete when she first started in 1915. In about the mid-1920's her notes were not as detailed and were not daily as they were when she first started; the decline in the regularity of her field notes probably occurred because she was becoming more active in speaking and writing. After the French's gave up the farm to move to Dayton in 1944, her notes become more regular and complete, but there are still some big gaps when she didn't record any observations.
It is clear from her notebooks that she was most interested in the arrival of birds during spring migration because that is when her notes are most complete. Accordingly, her field notes are most valuable in determining spring arrival dates. Unfortunately, a few of her arrival dates appear to be unreasonably late and invalid. To get an accurate date of when birds FIRST arrive, a lot of time must be spent out looking for them BEFORE they are due. Since Grace basically appears to have done housework rather than outdoor work, she could not always spend the time necessary to see the first birds of the season, so her "arrival" dates are really the first dates that the birds were recorded, not necessarily the first date that they arrived. Grace evidently did not have a keen sense of self-criticism because she should have realized this error and simply excluded "arrival" dates if she had not spent very much time looking for the first arrival of a particular bird. In spite of her inclusion of some arrival dates that should have been excluded, the vast majority of her arrival dates appear to be reasonable and should not be disregarded.
++++ start of p. *5 in SOO No. 2 (s2.htm)| Contents| Index|Her skills in identifying birds do not appear to be terrific. In her species list for Yamhill County, she included Black Brant and Gray-cheeked Thrush; these were probably misidentifications. The rest of the birds she identified in her notes appear to be valid sightings, and she appeared to be properly skeptical of the birds that were reported to her.
She undoubtedly did not record all birds present in her area; afterall, she only had a Yamhill County list of 116 species, which is very few for 30+ years of bird watching. In particular, she seems to have missed a lot of owls and some flycatchers that should have been present in her area. Her list may have been low because she didn't spend a lot of time hunting for new species or going to unfamiliar areas. Since she didn't have records of bird songs, she couldn't use them to help identify unfamiliar songs of birds that she could not see with her "opera glasses" that may have only magnified birds 2-4 times. She did have several field guides (e.g., Bailey 1902, Taverner 1926), but they are not as easy to use or as accurate as those we have today.
She could have improved her identification skills by going on field trips with experts. Afterall, the Portland Audubon Society had regular field trips. However, she never mentions going on any field trips, other than those she herself led on her own farm.
An annoying problem with her field notes is that she often didn't give locatable landmarks for some of her observations. Practically all her notes were probably in Yamhill County, but she often states that such and such bird was seen in "Ed's Pasture" or the "Lane." She knew the location of these reports, but we do not. Nevertheless, since she writes down when she made any trip to Portland, to the coast, or elsewhere; it appears safe to assume that her observations were all in Yamhill county near Carlton or Dayton unless noted otherwise.
Another annoyance in her field notes is that she listed children and some neighbors by their first name, but most adults were recorded only by their last name and by Mr., Mrs., or Miss. The problem with this formality is that it is difficult to identify conclusively some of the people she mentioned in her notebooks because she neglected to list their first names or initials. For example, she noted that a Mr. Braly visited to see the French's Turkey Vulture nest; presumably this would have been J.C. Braly.
Grace's major failing as an ornithologist was to not publish her work. There are many steps to having the results of one's field notes published in a paper or in a book. It is not enough to take meticulous field notes year after year and expect some "white knight" to come roaring up to save one's work from oblivion. One must also have or acquire the skill to analyze and compile one's field notes. Then one can learn from them as well as get them in shape to share with others. After the notes have been analyzed, they have to be written up into something cohesive and readable. Finally, a publisher must be found. These are all the steps that are required to make one's notes public. Unfortunately, Grace did not have all these skills, but that does not mean that her field notes and observations were shoddy; it just means that she didn't have all the skills.
If she had either finished her book or added a few more details to her notebooks, her work and observations would be more understandable to others. It is clear that she wrote her notes for herself, not others; while this is understandable, it doesn't help us in deciphering her work.
SIGNIFICANCE.--Few Oregon ornithologists or bird watchers today have ever heard of Grace McCormac French. Since she did not collect birds or bird eggs, write papers for scientific journals, or publish her field notes; Grace's direct influence on Oregon ornithology appears negligible. The significance of her work was indirect through the inspiration of others through her newspaper articles, speeches, and work with Boy and Girl Scouts. Her impact through these activities is difficult to measure, but she may have sparked someone that did have a direct effect on Oregon ornithology.
++++ start of p. *6 in SOO No. 2 (s2.htm)| Contents| Index|Grace did leave her field notes, and posthumously, they may have a direct effect on Oregon ornithology after they are compiled and published. Her field notes are certainly important to anyone interested in the birds of Yamhill County, but she has also included a lot of information valuable to anyone interested in the birds of Oregon. For example, her data are not only for spring arrivals; she also indicates when young were being fed in nests or away from the nest, the differential spring arrival of males and females of some birds, monthly presence, relative abundance, and other anecdotal information that is valuable because it can only be gathered through observations made over many years.
None of Grace's work is mentioned in Gabrielson and Jewett's (1940) Birds of Oregon. She doesn't ever write that she gave them any notes, but she doesn't mention being asked either. However, news about their book was known in the Portland area several years before they completed it, so she could have volunteered her notes to help them. Also, Jewett had been out to her place to look at her notes in October 1933, and both Gabrielson and Jewett had access to her Biological Survey notes. Further, both Gabrielson and Jewett had met her and knew of her work through the Portland Audubon Society and the Portland "Oregonian."
So why wasn't her notes used in Birds of Oregon? If one is a feminist, one could argue that Gabrielson and Jewett ignored her because she was a woman; after all, virtually all people cited in their book were men. But this argument is invalid because Gabrielson and Jewett appeared to cite everybody who made collections of birds or bird eggs or who had papers published in scientific or semi-scientific journals. It just so happened that men were the only collectors and that few women wrote for journals. Any women's papers in such journals were cited by Gabrielson and Jewett (e.g., those by Florence Bailey and Olive Barber), even though the papers may not have contained much scientific information.
Another reason why Grace's work might not have been used is that Gabrielson and Jewett might not have thought that she was a good observer. But this argument doesn't stand up either, since they made a point of citing and debunking reports of questionable sightings by men, so they would probably have done the same for questionable reports by women.
One more possibility is that Grace did not have had her notes worked up into a form where Gabrielson and Jewett could use them; they may have only wanted to deal with published or well compiled records.
But perhaps the real reason is that Grace may not have wished to share her notes because she planned to write her own book from them. She was still planning to finish her book at the time they were working on theirs, and it would have taken the "fire" out of her book if her notes had already been used in their book. After she gave up on her own book, she may have greatly regretted the omission of her work from Birds of Oregon.
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Even though her arrival and departure dates should be interpreted cautiously, there is much valuable information in her reports. Further, her 25+ years of arrival dates for many species has not been matched by anybody else in Oregon.
Grace compiled some of her arrival and departure data in her notebooks 43 and 44, which contained information generally only through 1942. I have used her typed, probably finalized, dates in notebook 44 if there was a discrepancy in the dates between the two notebooks. For post-1942 arrivals and departures, I have extracted the dates from her notebooks 37-41.
Note that the only species included here are the ones for which Grace had compiled dates; she also noted the arrivals of several other species. Species are listed in alphabetical order. Abbreviations for species include: Yellow-br. Chat=Yellow-breasted Chat, Am. Gold.=American Goldfinch, Lesser Gold.=Lesser Goldfinch, W. Wood-Pewee=Western Wood-Pewee, Red-n. Phala.=Red-necked Phalarope, White-cro. Sparrow=White-crowned Sparrow, Rough-W. Swallow=No. Rough-winged Swallow, Violet-gr. Swallow=Violet-green Swallow, B-thr. Gray Warbler=Black-throated Gray Warbler, MacGilliv. Warbler=MacGillivray's Warbler, Orange-cr. Warbler=Orange-crowned Warbler, and Y-r Warbler=Yellow-rumped Warbler. See Appendix V for scientific names of these birds.
Years=number of years, Range=earliest to latest date among years, -=no dates given.
Included at the end of this compilation is Grace's "Annual Goose" day. Grace seemed to mean that this was the day in spring when the greatest number of geese migrated by. Also included at the end is the dates when Blue Grouse began drumming.
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Lazuli Yellow-br. Sandhill Mourning Willow
Bunting... Chat...... Crane..... Dove...... Flycatcher
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1913 - - - - - - 5/10 - - -
1914 - - - - - - - - - -
1915 5/11 - 5/19 - 4/19 - 4/21 - - -
1916 5/3 - 5/26 - - - 5/29 8/23 5/2 -
1917 4/28 - 5/23 - - - 2/27 - 5/17 9/14
1918 5/12 - - - - - 5/13 - 5/28 -
1919 4/30 - - - - - 5/9 - 5/6 -
1920 5/8 - 5/24 - - - - - 5/24 -
1921 5/10 - - - - - 5/21 - - -
1922 5/11 - 5/22 - - - 5/9 8/14 5/18 -
1923 5/18 - - - - - - - 5/23 -
1924 - 8/31 5/14 9/3 4/10 10/9 4/15 - 6/1 -
1925 5/1 - 5/4 - - - - 9/20 - -
1926 4/30 - 4/25 - 4/11 - 3/6 10/13 5/23 -
1927 4/27 - 6/2 - - - 5/22 - 5/25 -
1928 5/15 8/22 5/15 8/22 4/17 - 3/29 - 5/2 -
1929 5/9 - 5/20 - - - - - 5/25 -
1930 5/15 - 5/22 - - - 5/16 - 5/21 -
1931 4/28 - 5/7 - - - - - 5/26 -
1932 5/8 - 5/24 - - - 6/2 - 5/31 -
1933 5/13 - 6/2 - - - - - 6/1 -
1934 5/6 - 5/7 - 4/9 - 5/14 8/26 5/30 -
1935 4/28 - 5/9 - - - 5/12 - 5/26 9/28
1936 5/1 - 5/12 - 4/18 - 5/24 - 5/24 -
1937 5/6 - 5/19 - - - 5/23 - 5/19 -
1938 5/13 - 5/17 - - - 5/15 - 5/28 -
1939 - 8/13 5/8 8/22 4/25 - 4/19 8/18 - 9/6
1940 5/7 - 5/8 8/4 - - 5/16 9/29 5/27 8/21
1941 5/8 - 5/9 - 4/14 - 3/29 - 5/18 -
1942 5/12 - 5/14 - 4/27 - - - 5/25 -
1943 5/11 - 5/28 - 4/8 - 5/2 - 5/31 -
1944 5/10 - 5/12 - 4/15 - 4/28 - - -
1945 5/25 - - - 5/3 - - - - -
1946 - - - - - - - - - -
1947 - - - - - - - - - -
1948 - - - - 4/20 - - - - -
Years 29 3 26 4 13 1 24 7 25 4
Mean 5/9 8/22 5/16 8/21 4/17 10/9 5/2 9/8 5/23 9/9
Range 4/27- 8/13- 4/25- 8/4 4/8- 10/9 2/27- 8/14- 5/2- 8/21-
5/25 8/31 6/2 9/3 5/3 6/2 10/13 6/1 9/28
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Am. Lesser Black-headed
Gold.* Gold.@ Grosbeak
First First First Last
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1913 - -@ - -
1914 - -@ - -
1915 4/7* 4/25@ 6/4 -
1916 4/12* 4/21@ 5/15 -
1917 4/26* 5/23@ 5/20 -
1918 4/16* 3/19@ 5/12 -
1919 4/19* 3/13@ 5/9 -
1920 4/25* 4/26@ 5/10 -
1921 4/17* 3/24@ 5/13 -
1922 4/29* 5/13@ 5/11 -
1923 4/25* 4/20@ 5/12 -
1924 4/10* 4/30@ 5/11 -
1925 4/9* 4/16@ 5/8 -
1926 4/2* 3/21@ 5/8 -
1927 4/24* 4/21@ 5/12 -
1928 4/24* 4/14@ 5/10 -
1929 4/27* 4/24@ 5/7 8/8
1930 3/28* 5/16@ 5/11 8/13
1931 4/27* 4/26@ 5/9 -
1932 4/28* 3/7@ 5/27 8/30
1933 4/28* 4/28@ 5/22 -
1934 4/3* 5/14@ 5/18 -
1935 4/9* 5/12@ 5/18 -
1936 4/19* 4/8@ 5/24 -
1937 4/24* -@ 5/21 -
1938 4/3* 4/4@ 5/20 -
1939 4/17* 3/28@ - 8/25
1940 4/10* 4/10@ 5/8 8/10
1941 4/23* -@ 5/18 -
1942 4/19* 4/12@ 5/15 -
1943 5/2* -@ 5/12 -
1944 4/15* 5/24@ 5/6 -
1945 4/19* -@ - -
1946 - -@ - -
1947 - -@ - -
1948 4/13* -@ - -
Years 32 27 29 5
Mean 4/17 4/18 5/15 8/17
Range 3/28- 3/7- 5/6- 8/8-
5/2 5/24 6/4 8/25
* This is the first appearance of American Goldfinches in "yellow and
black" (i.e., the appearance of the first males in summer plumage).
@ Some Lesser Goldfinches strayed in winter (e.g., 1919).
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Rufous Common W. Wood- Red-n. Band-tailed
Hummingbird Nighthawk. Pewee.... Phala. Pigeon....
First Last First Last First Last First First Last
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1914 - - - - - - - - -
1915 3/29 9/11 6/7 - 5/15 - - - 8/25
1916 3/17 - 5/29 - 5/10 8/23 - 5/26 -
1917 4/4 - 6/14 - 5/16 - - 5/16 9/6
1918 3/20 - - - 5/20 - - 4/19 -
1919 3/30 - - - 5/12 - - 5/4 -
1920 4/6 - 5/29 - 5/11 - - 5/3 -
1921 3/30 - - - 5/16 - 5/2 4/17 -
1922 4/15 - 6/6 - 5/12 8/14 5/18 4/20 9/22
1923 3/21 - 6/4 - 5/12 - 4/25 4/9 -
1924 3/26 - 6/9 - 5/4 - 4/17 4/8 9/25
1925 3/22 8/31 - - 5/8 - - 4/17 -
1926 3/14 - 6/3 - 4/30 - 5/22 4/14 10/18
1927 4/4 10/4 6/5 - 5/15 - - 5/1 -
1928 3/20 8/25 6/2 - 5/1 - 4/30 4/20 -
1929 3/27 8/8 6/3 - 5/11 8/8 4/14 4/20 -
1930 3/29 - 6/4 - 5/16 - - 4/29 8/12
1931 4/1 - 6/8 - 5/19 - - 4/10 -
1932 3/30 8/14 6/18 - 5/14 - - 5/19 -
1933 4/3 - 6/4 - 5/24 - - 5/11 -
1934 3/12 - 5/30 8/23 5/13 - - 4/24 -
1935 4/10 8/21 6/6 8/31 5/28 8/5 5/18 5/7 -
1936 4/7 8/26 6/4 - 5/23 8/6 - 4/18 9/28
1937 4/7 9/13 6/6 - 5/23 8/18 - 5/11 -
1938 4/1 - 6/3 - 5/26 - - 5/15 -
1939 3/22 8/22 6/2 - 5/25 - - 4/21 10/8
1940 3/11 8/4 6/11 8/18 5/14 9/18 - 4/22 -
1941 3/10 - 5/28 - 5/2 - - 4/25 -
1942 3/16 - 6/3 - 5/12 - - 5/10 -
1943 4/1 - 6/15 - 5/13 - - - -
1944 3/13 - 6/10 - 5/10 - - 4/17 -
1945 3/24 - - - 5/21 - - - -
1946 3/17 - - - - - - - -
1947 - - - - - - - - -
1948 3/28 - - - - - - - -
Years 33 11 26 3 31 7 8 28 8
Mean 3/26 8/27 6/5 8/24 5/14 8/18 5/3 4/27 9/17
Range 3/10- 8/4- 5/28- 8/18- 4/30- 8/5- 4/14- 4/8- 8/12-
4/15 10/4 6/18 8/31 5/28 9/18 5/22 5/26 10/18
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Am. Pine Chipping Golden-crowned
Robin Siskin Sparrow... Sparrow........*
First@ First First Last First Last First
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1914 - - - - - 5/11 -
1915 - - 4/5 - - 5/18 9/14
1916 1/24@ - 4/6 9/29 3/27 5/14 9/28
1917 2/9@ 4/27 4/4 - 4/7 5/18 9/18
1918 - 5/1 4/10 - 4/11 5/21 -
1919 3/8@ 4/29 4/13 - 4/6 5/10 10/1
1920 2/9@ 4/17 4/22 - 4/11 5/19 -
1921 1/26@ 4/8 4/27 - 3/7 5/12 -
1922 2/7@ 3/31 4/18 9/18 4/5 5/11 10/9
1923 2/23@ 4/10 4/14 - 4/18 5/4 -
1924 2/7@ 3/1 4/10 8/31 3/26 - 9/14
1925 1/20@ 4/7 4/10 9/30 4/23 5/8 10/11
1926 2/2@ 4/2 4/8 - 4/13 - 9/11
1927 1/15@ 4/21 4/13 - 4/21 5/10 -
1928 2/16@ 4/10 4/19 9/13 3/25 5/8 9/28
1929 1/15@ 4/23 4/8 9/13 3/30 5/10 9/20
1930 2/15@ 4/14 4/4 9/21 3/29 5/11 9/16
1931 1/20@ 4/14 4/6 - 4/2 - 9/15
1932 1/4@ 4/29 4/10 8/30 4/13 - -
1933 2/8@ 3/14 4/7 - 4/3 5/14 10/1
1934 1/14@ 3/29 3/23 - 4/12 - 9/27
1935 1/23@ 4/18 4/10 9/8 4/18 - 9/14
1936 1/29@ 4/15 4/9 10/1 4/11 - 9/14
1937 2/11@ 4/17 4/22 - 4/15 5/11 -
1938 2/24@ 4/12 4/12 - 3/26 5/9 11/10
1939 1/19@ 3/30 4/1 9/19 4/20 - 9/24
1940 1/13@ 4/14 4/8 9/17 3/19 - 9/19
1941 1/25@ 3/25 4/1 - 3/13 - -
1942 2/14@ 4/8 4/7 - 4/17 - -
1943 2/8@ 4/14 4/3 - 4/13 - -
1944 1/16@ 4/30 4/6 - - - -
1945 - 4/13 4/19 - 3/14 - -
1946 - - 4/12 - 4/12 - -
1947 - - - - - - -
1948 2/10@ - - - - - -
Years 29 29 32 12 30 18 19
Mean 2/1 4/11 4/10 9/16 4/5 5/12 9/25
Range 1/4- 3/1- 3/23- 8/30- 3/7- 5/4- 9/11-
3/8 5/1 4/27 10/1 4/23 5/21 11/10
*Golden-crowned Sparrows remained throughout some winters, but in other
years they were spring and fall migrants.
@This is the date when Robins arrived in flocks; some were present earlier.
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Lincoln's Savannah Vesper White-crowned
Sparrow... Sparrow Sparrow Sparrow...
First Last First First First Last
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1914 - - - - - -
1915 - - 4/29 3/11 3/23 -
1916 4/12 - 3/30 3/30 3/8 10/4
1917 4/27 - 4/21 4/4 3/30 9/4
1918 - - 5/1 3/29 3/19 -
1919 4/28 - 3/22 4/2 3/25 -
1920 4/22 - 4/24 4/1 4/4 9/7
1921 5/1 - 4/17 3/31 3/31 -
1922 4/21 - 3/27 3/27 2/21 10/1
1923 4/26 - 4/26 3/29 3/29 -
1924 5/3 - 5/1 4/4 4/2 10/3
1925 - - 4/30 3/24 3/28 8/31
1926 - - 4/25 3/29 3/28 10/2
1927 4/23 - - 4/1 4/1 -
1928 - - 4/19 3/25 3/18 10/8
1929 4/27 - 3/31 4/2 4/2 9/11
1930 5/5 - 5/12 4/5 3/18 -
1931 - - - 4/5 3/29 -
1932 4/29 - 4/9 4/10 3/28 8/19
1933 4/27 - 4/9 4/1 4/3 -
1934 - - - 4/2 3/14 -
1935 4/22 - 5/1 4/23 4/9 9/8
1936 - 8/27 4/16 4/10 3/22 9/28
1937 - - - 4/16 4/8 -
1938 - - - 4/2 4/1 -
1939 4/18 - - 3/30 4/1 9/28
1940 - - - 4/21 4/4 -
1941 - - - 4/22 3/27 -
1942 - - 4/18 4/4 3/26 -
1943 4/13 - 4/3 4/4 2/27 -
1944 - - - - 3/31 -
1945 - - - - 4/14 -
1946 - - - 4/14 4/6 -
1947 - - - - - -
1948 - - - - - -
1949 - - - - - -
1950 - - - - - -
Years 16 1 21 30 32 13
Mean 4/25 8/27 4/17 4/3 3/27 9/18
Range 4/12- 8/27 3/22- 3/11- 2/21 8/19-
5/5 5/12 4/23 4/14 10/8
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Barn Cliff Rough-w. Tree
Swallow.. Swallow... Swallow Swallow...
First Last First Last First First Last
--------------------------------------------------------
1914 - - 4/25 - - - -
1915 - - 5/12 - 5/10 3/11 -
1916 4/21 - 4/18 - 4/30 * -
1917 5/17 - 3/30 - - * -
1918 6/1 - 4/12 - 4/23 3/7 -
1919 6/28 - 4/3 - 4/15 3/13 -
1920 5/21 - 4/22 - 4/30 3/8 -
1921 5/17 - 4/25 - - 3/30 -
1922 - 9/12 4/4 - - * -
1923 - - 4/16 9/28 5/3 3/23 -
1924 5/22 9/19 4/8 - 5/12 3/19 -
1925 - - 3/30 - 5/15 3/1 -
1926 5/23 - 3/22 - 4/28 3/3 -
1927 6/7 - 4/3 - 4/18 3/2 -
1928 - - 4/17 - - 3/1 -
1929 - - 4/5 - - 2/28 -
1930 - 9/4 3/29 - - 2/20 -
1931 - - 4/14 - - 3/17 -
1932 5/12 - 3/30 - 4/19 3/14 -
1933 - - 4/1 - 4/19 3/8 -
1934 - - 4/5 9/21 5/10 2/22 9/23
1935 5/24 - 3/26 - 4/2 3/29 -
1936 5/24 - 4/8 9/22 4/19 3/11 -
1937 - - 4/6 - 4/24 2/24 -
1938 - - 4/2 - 4/19 2/25 -
1939 - 8/31 4/12 9/11 4/15 3/14 -
1940 - - 4/22 - 5/1 3/10 -
1941 5/18 - 4/19 - 5/18 3/25 -
1942 - - 4/13 - - 3/6 -
1943 - - 4/13 - - 2/27 -
1944 - - 4/30 - 5/6 2/13 -
1945 - - - - - 2/17 -
1946 - - - - - 2/25 -
1947 - - - - - - -
1948 - - - - - 2/24 -
1949 - - - - - - -
1950 - - - - - 2/12 -
Years 13 4 31 4 21 31 1
Mean 5/23 9/9 4/10 9/21 4/27 3/5 9/23
Range 4/21- 8/31- 3/22- 9/11- 4/2- 2/12- 9/23
6/7 9/19 5/12 9/28 5/18 3/30
* The Tree Swallow arrival date for this year was after April 20 and has
been deleted because Tree Swallows undoubtedly arrived long before
this.
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Violet-gr. Vaux's Western Swainson's
Swallow... Swift..... Tanager... Thrush....
First Last First Last First Last First Last
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1914 - - - - - 9/23 - -
1915 3/15 10/3 - - 5/20 9/13 5/8 9/14
1916 3/1 10/5 5/22 9/10 - 9/3 5/8 -
1917 3/9 - - - 5/15 9/14 4/27 9/13
1918 3/18 - 6/17 - 5/9 - 5/13 -
1919 3/20 - - - 5/8 - 5/12 -
1920 3/3 10/3 - - 5/13 - 5/4 -
1921 3/5 - - - 5/18 - 5/13 -
1922 3/11 10/4 - 9/27 5/11 9/16 5/11 9/10
1923 3/9 10/12 - 9/28 5/11 9/14 5/19 9/4
1924 3/4 9/28 - 9/15 5/12 8/29 5/16 9/17
1925 2/24 9/30 - 9/2 5/8 8/28 5/4 -
1926 3/1 10/8 - 9/30 5/5 - 5/9 -
1927 3/1 10/9 - - 5/8 - 5/13 -
1928 3/6 10/10 - - 5/4 9/13 5/9 -
1929 3/1 10/2 5/4 8/18 5/11 8/8 5/14 9/12
1930 2/28 9/30 5/21 - 5/1 8/13 5/12 -
1931 3/11 10/6 6/8 - 5/12 9/13 5/9 -
1932 2/29 9/12 5/31 8/28 5/18 8/30 5/17 8/29
1933 3/7 9/30 4/30 - 5/16 - 5/19 -
1934 3/12 9/25 5/7 - 5/17 - 5/12 -
1935 3/16 9/22 4/27 9/22 5/14 9/2 5/12 -
1936 3/5 9/27 5/8 9/14 5/2 9/6 5/14 9/6
1937 3/9 10/4 5/11 - 5/6 - 5/12 -
1938 3/25 10/4 - 9/5 5/5 - 5/14 -
1939 3/16 10/7 - 9/24 - 8/26 - 9/11
1940 3/3 9/19 5/6 8/23 5/15 8/10 5/7 9/28
1941 3/4 - 4/24 - 5/8 - 5/12 -
1942 3/5 - 4/22 - 5/12 - 5/11 -
1943 2/26 - 4/25 - 5/10 - 5/12 -
1944 3/11 - - - 5/6 - 5/10 -
1945 3/14 - - - 5/4 - 5/24 -
1946 3/7 - - - - - - -
1947 - - - - - - - -
1948 3/4 - - - - - - -
1949 - - - - - - - -
1950 2/15 - - - - - - -
Years 34 22 15 13 29 17 30 10
Mean 3/7 10/1 5/11 9/12 5/10 9/3 5/12 9/11
Range 2/15- 9/12- 4/22- 8/18- 5/1- 8/8- 4/27- 8/29-
3/25 10/12 6/17 9/30 5/20 9/23 5/24 9/28
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Solitary Warbling Turkey B-thr.Gray
Vireo..... Vireo..... Vulture... Warbler...
First Last First Last First Last First Last
-------------------------------------------------------
1914 - - - - - - - -
1915 4/27 - 5/17 - 3/27 9/21 4/7 -
1916 4/16 9/16 - - 3/29 9/30 4/5 9/28
1917 4/22 - - - 3/18 9/13 4/14 -
1918 4/11 - - - 4/4 - - -
1919 4/18 - 5/5 - 3/11 - 4/18 -
1920 4/22 - 5/10 - 4/6 - 4/4 -
1921 5/2 - 5/16 - 3/21 - 4/17 -
1922 4/20 9/7 4/23 - 3/28 10/3 5/11 9/29
1923 4/22 9/4 5/11 - 3/25 9/28 4/29 9/28
1924 4/23 8/30 5/5 - 3/19 9/25 4/2 10/3
1925 5/1 9/20 5/5 - 3/20 9/26 5/8 -
1926 4/6 - 4/25 - 3/20 - 4/6 -
1927 4/21 - 4/24 - 3/18 - 4/21 -
1928 4/16 - 5/1 - 3/19 9/23 4/26 8/25
1929 4/25 - 5/1 - 3/16 9/26 4/25 -
1930 4/21 - 5/1 - 3/14 10/2 4/24 9/17
1931 4/12 - - - 3/20 9/27 4/3 -
1932 4/13 8/30 4/24 - 3/11 - 4/20 -
1933 4/10 - 5/19 - 3/20 - 4/23 -
1934 4/6 - - - 3/21 9/27 4/16 -
1935 4/20 9/5 6/3 - 3/27 9/20 4/20 -
1936 4/16 9/22 4/29 - 3/18 9/28 4/21 -
1937 4/23 - 5/19 - 3/21 10/4 4/25 -
1938 4/21 9/15 5/9 - 4/12 10/1 4/26 -
1939 4/13 10/27 5/3 - 3/21 8/27 - -
1940 4/12 - 5/3 8/10 3/21 9/19 4/15 8/31
1941 4/27 - 4/29 - 3/11 9/21 4/16 -
1942 4/11 - 5/12 - 3/16 - 4/26 -
1943 4/19 - 5/5 - 3/10 - - -
1944 4/28 - 5/9 - 3/21 - 5/7 -
1945 4/19 - 4/18 - 4/2 - 5/12 -
1946 - - 5/4 - 4/29 - - -
1947 - - - - - - - -
1948 - - - - 3/18 - - -
1949 - - - - - - - -
1950 - - - - - - - -
Years 31 10 27 1 32 19 28 7
Mean 4/18 9/14 5/5 8/10 3/23 9/24 4/20 9/18
Range 4/6- 8/30- 4/24- 8/10 3/10- 8/27- 4/2- 8/25-
5/2 10/27 6/3 4/29 10/4 5/12 10/3
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Hermit MacGilliv. Orange-cr. Townsend's Wilson's
Warbler Warbler... Warbler... Warbler Warbler...
First First Last First Last First First Last
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1915 - 5/5 - - - - 5/6 -
1916 - 4/12 - 4/2 - - 4/30 -
1917 - 5/5 - 4/17 9/13 - 5/2 9/14
1918 - 5/21 - 4/11 - 5/22 5/20 -
1919 - 4/12 - 4/14 - - 5/5 -
1920 - 5/4 - 4/6 - - 5/4 -
1921 - 5/20 - 4/11 - - 5/12 -
1922 5/11 5/5 8/14 4/15 - 5/12 5/5 -
1923 - 4/29 - 4/9 - - 5/13 -
1924 5/4 5/1 - 4/8 - 5/4 5/12 -
1925 - 5/1 - 4/16 - - 5/8 -
1926 5/23 4/21 - 4/1 - 4/25 5/23 -
1927 - 4/23 - 4/7 - - 4/29 -
1928 - 4/29 - 4/8 - 5/2 4/29 -
1929 - 4/25 - 4/20 - - 5/2 -
1930 - 4/24 - 4/26 - 5/2 5/2 -
1931 - 4/14 - 4/6 - - - -
1932 - 4/26 - 4/12 - - - -
1933 - 4/25 - 4/4 - 5/19 5/14 -
1934 - 5/1 - 4/2 - - 5/6 -
1935 - 4/29 - 4/9 - - 4/28 -
1936 5/24 5/2 9/6 4/13 - - 5/1 -
1937 - - 8/18 4/23 - - 4/30 -
1938 - - - 4/12 - - - -
1939 - - - 4/13 8/21 - - -
1940 - - - 4/5 - - - -
1941 5/9 5/8 - 3/31 - 5/9 5/8 -
1942 - 5/11 - 4/10 - - - -
1943 - 5/8 - 4/7 - - - -
1944 - 5/16 - 4/18 - - 5/8 -
1945 - 5/5 - 4/19 - - - -
1946 - - - 4/25 - - - -
1947 - - - - - - - -
1948 - - - 4/13 - - - -
Years 5 27 3 32 2 8 23 1
Mean 5/14 5/1 8/23 4/11 9/2 5/9 5/6 9/14
Range 5/4- 4/12- 8/14- 3/31- 8/21- 4/25- 4/29- 9/14
5/24 5/21 9/6 4/26 9/13 5/22 5/23
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Yellow Y-r (Aud.) Y-r (Myr)
Warbler... Warbler Warbler
First Last First First
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1915 5/6 - 3/23 3/23
1916 5/1 8/24 3/16 3/16
1917 5/4 - 3/17 4/4
1918 5/9 - 3/15 4/11
1919 5/5 - 3/10 3/18
1920 5/4 - 3/14 3/20
1921 5/10 - 3/18 4/4
1922 5/1 9/12 3/20 4/1
1923 5/6 - 3/19 4/10
1924 4/30 - 3/5 4/8
1925 5/3 - 2/27 5/11
1926 4/27 - 3/2 4/21
1927 4/30 - 3/4 4/29
1928 5/1 - 3/5 4/21
1929 5/2 - 3/1 4/2
1930 5/5 - 2/21 2/21
1931 4/26 - 3/18 4/4
1932 5/3 - 3/7 3/22
1933 4/28 - 3/1 -
1934 4/21 - 3/10 4/23
1935 4/29 - 3/12 3/16
1936 4/28 - 3/3 4/20
1937 5/1 - 4/12 4/13
1938 5/5 - 2/25 4/13
1939 4/30 8/22 2/17 3/16
1940 5/5 - 2/28 4/8
1941 5/2 - 3/5 3/19
1942 5/4 - 3/5 3/29
1943 4/30 - 2/16 -
1944 5/3 - 3/17 3/18
1945 5/1 - 4/13 -
1946 4/26 - - 3/28
1947 - - - -
1948 - - - -
Years 32 3 31 29
Mean 5/2 8/30 3/10 4/2
Range 4/21- 8/22- 2/16- 2/21-
5/10 9/12 4/13 5/11
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Cedar House Common
Waxwing... Wren...... Yellow-throat
First Last First Last First Last
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1915 - 10/10 5/11 - 4/28 9/5
1916 5/27 9/9 4/17 9/13 4/10 -
1917 5/29 - 4/27 - 4/24 9/13
1918 5/20 - 4/29 - 4/20 -
1919 5/21 - 4/22 - 4/13 -
1920 5/20 - 4/22 - 4/19 9/6
1921 5/21 - 4/13 - 4/20 -
1922 5/24 - 4/24 9/11 5/10 -
1923 5/18 9/4 5/4 - 4/24 -
1924 5/11 10/8 4/22 - 4/15 9/7
1925 5/15 9/20 5/4 - 5/4 -
1926 5/23 - 4/16 - 4/27 -
1927 5/24 - 4/26 - 4/29 -
1928 5/18 10/8 4/30 - 4/16 -
1929 5/18 9/23 5/6 - 4/25 -
1930 5/20 8/13 - - 4/17 -
1931 5/11 - 4/16 - 4/13 -
1932 5/19 8/29 5/8 - 4/24 -
1933 5/20 - 5/22 - 4/21 -
1934 5/15 - 4/19 - 5/5 -
1935 5/5 9/20 4/19 - 4/28 -
1936 5/14 - 4/16 - 4/20 -
1937 5/18 - 4/23 - 4/25 -
1938 5/20 10/22 5/10 - 4/24 -
1939 5/20 10/27 4/28 9/11 4/14 9/13
1940 5/15 - 4/11 - 4/16 -
1941 5/18 10/5 4/9 - 4/11 -
1942 5/31 - 4/24 - 4/15 -
1943 5/20 - 4/13 - 4/12 -
1944 5/24 - 5/1 - 4/26 -
1945 5/25 - 5/25 - 5/1 -
Years 30 13 30 3 31 5
Mean 5/19 9/24 4/26 9/12 4/22 9/9
Range 5/5- 8/29- 4/9- 9/11- 4/10- 9/5-
5/31 10/27 5/25 9/13 5/10 9/13
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Other Spring Events.....................
"Annual Blue Grouse
Goose" Day Starts "drumming"
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1913 4/21 -
1914 - -
1915 4/19 -
1916 4/14 3/12
1917 4/25 2/14
1918 4/21 3/7
1919 4/20 3/13
1920 4/22 3/1
1921 4/21 3/11
1922 4/25 2/21
1923 4/16 3/26
1924 - 2/24
1925 4/23 4/16
1926 4/16 3/15
1927 4/17 3/3
1928 4/22 4/10
1929 4/22 3/17
1930 4/20 3/23
1931 4/10 3/22
1932 4/22 3/21
1933 4/23 3/20
1934 5/2 3/19
1935 4/20 3/29
1936 4/15 3/23
1937 4/17 3/25
1938 4/16 4/3
1939 4/17 4/1
1940 4/23 -
1941 4/23 -
1942 4/26 -
1943 4/22 -
1944 4/27 -
1945 4/21 -
1946 4/28 -
1947 - -
1948 - -
Years 32 24
Mean 4/21 3/17
Range 4/10- 2/14-
5/2 4/16
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More important than just a list of species is the status she assigned to these species, which is also given below. All comments for each species are in the words she used; my editorial comments are in brackets. The meaning or criteria she used in her terms such as "Summer Resident," "Winter Resident," "Passing Migrant," "Transient Migrant," "Common," or "Rare" are unknown because she did not state what she meant by these terms. Some of her comments are from Appendix IV and her notebooks 43 and 44. Average arrival and departure dates are from "French's Arrival and Departure Dates" section. The nesting status of species is mainly from her Biological Survey notes in Appendix IV. If no remarks are given for a species, she hadn't made any comment the bird.
Species names are those recommended by the American Ornithologist's Union in 1986; see Appendix V for the corresponding scientific names.
Blackbird, Brewer's.
Blackbird, Red-winged.
Bobwhite, Northern.
Brant, (Black)--[This could be a misidentification because Bayer does not
know of any other Willamette Valley records.]
+++ [4/23/1995 addition: there are a few records of Brant in the
+++ Will. Valley, but not thousands as she reports on p. *36.] ++++++
Bunting, Lark--30 Nov. 1950.
Bunting, Lazuli--Summer resident; average spring arrival on May 9 and fall
departure on August 22. Common and nests here.
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Bushtit.
Chat, Yellow-breasted--Summer resident; average spring arrival on May 16 and
fall departure on August 21. Nests here.
Chickadee, Black-capped.
Chickadee, Chestnut-backed--Permanent resident.
Crane, Sandhill--Passing migrant; average spring arrival on April 17.
Creeper, Brown--7 June 1949.
Crossbill, Red.
Crow, American?.
Dove, Mourning--Average spring arrival was on May 2 and average fall
departure on Sept. 8. Rare and does not nest here.
Eagle, Bald--12 May 1916.
Finch, House.
Finch, Purple.
Flicker, Red-shafted.
Flycatcher, Olive-sided--Summer resident. Rare and does not nest here in
1917; nesting status in 1921 was not given.
Flycatcher, Western--Summer resident.
Flycatcher, Willow--Summer resident; average spring arrival on May 23 and
average fall departure on Sept. 9. Common and nests here.
Goldfinch, American--The first adult males in breeding plumage appeared on
the average of April 17. Common and nests here.
Goldfinch, Lesser--Passing migrant that strays in winter; besides the
occasional winter straggler, their average arrival was on April 18.
goose sp.--On the average, the biggest day of geese migration in spring was
on April 21.
Goose, Canada--Does not nest here.
Goose, Greater White-fronted--Does not nest here.
Goose, Snow--200 seen on 21 April 1917. Does not nest here.
Goshawk, No.--7 Jan. 1916.
Grosbeak, Black-headed--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was
on May 15, and their average fall departure was on August 17. Rare
and nests here.
Grosbeak, Evening.
Grouse, Blue--On the average, they began drumming on March 17.
Grouse, Ruffed.
Harrier, Northern.
Hawk, Cooper's.
Hawk, Red-tailed.
Hawk, Sharp-shinned.
Heron, Great Blue.
Hummingbird, Rufous--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
March 26, and their average fall departure was on August 27. Common
and nests here.
Jay, Scrub.
Jay, Steller's.
Junco, Dark-eyed--Oregon subspecies was winter resident; Slate-colored
subspecies was noted in Jan. or Feb. of 1916, 1927, 1929, and 1930.
Kestrel, American.
Killdeer.
Kingfisher, Belted.
Kinglet, Golden-crowned.
Kinglet, Ruby-crowned.
Meadowlark, Western.
Nighthawk, Common--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
June 5, and their average fall departure was on August 24. Nests
here.
Nuthatch, Red-breasted--Rare and nests here.
Nuthatch, White-breasted.
Oriole, Northern--Bullock's subspecies was seen on 10 May 1927.
Owl, Great Horned.
Owl, Short-eared--Rare and does not nest here.
Owl, Snowy--16 Jan. 1929 and 9 Dec. 1933.
Owl, Western Screech.
Partridge, Gray (Hungarian)--She noted some in some summers from 1915-1930.
Pewee, Western Wood--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
May 14, and their average fall departure was on August 18. Rare and
nests here.
Phalarope, Red-necked--Passing migrant; their average spring arrival was on
May 3.
Pheasant, Ring-necked--She noted many in 1915, but few in 1916 after a cold
winter.
Phoebe, Say's--19 Oct. 1915, 14 March 1920, 8 May 1921, 8 May 1922,
18 March 1923, and 12 May 1931.
Pigeon, Band-tailed--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 27, and their average fall departure was on Sept. 17. Common
and nests here.
Quail, California.
Raven, Common.
Robin, American--Present all winters in some years but there was an influx
on the average of February 1. Nests here.
Sapsucker, Red-breasted.
Shrike, Northern--2 April 1915, 2 April 1917, 9 Jan. 1917, and
13 Nov. 1919.
Siskin, Pine--Their average spring arrivals was on April 11. Common.
Snipe, Common--She noted this species in March and April of several years.
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Sparrow, American Tree--5 seen on 11 Dec. 1915.
Sparrow, Chipping--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 10 and their average fall departure on September 16. Common and
nests here.
Sparrow, Fox.
Sparrow, Golden-crowned--Their average spring arrival was on April 5, their
average spring departure on May 12, and their average fall arrival was
on September 25. Common in 1917 and rare in 1921. She reported that
a female was feeding flying young on 25 May 1917.
Sparrow, House.
Sparrow, Lincoln's--Passing migrant; their average spring arrival was on
April 25. Rare and does not nest here.
Sparrow, Savannah--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 17. Rare; does not nest here in 1917, but nesting status in
1921 is not listed.
Sparrow, Song.
Sparrow, Vesper--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 3. Common and nests here.
Sparrow, White-crowned--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was
on March 27 and their average fall departure on September 18. Common
and nests here.
Starling, European.
Swallow, Bank--Rare and nests here.
Swallow, Barn--Passing migrant; their average spring arrival was on May 23
and their average fall departure on September 9. Rare and does not
nest here, at least in 1917 and 1921.
Swallow, Cliff--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 10 and their average fall departure on September 21. Common.
Swallow, No. Rough-winged--Summer resident; their average spring arrival
was on April 27.
Swallow, Tree--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on March 5
and their average fall departure was on September 23. Rare and nests
here.
Swallow, Violet-green--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
March 7 and their average fall departure on October 1. Common.
Swan, Tundra--Transient migrant that occasionally overwinters. Rare and
does not nest here.
Swift, Vaux's--Their average spring arrival was on May 11, and their average
fall departure was on September 12.
Tanager, Western--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
May 10, and their average fall departure was on September 3. Common
and nests here.
Thrush, Gray-cheeked--Rare and does not nest here. [This is probably a
misidentification because this species is not recorded for western
Oregon.]
Thrush, Hermit--Passing migrant. Rare and does not nest here.
Thrush, Swainson's--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
May 12, and their average fall departure was on September 11. Common
and nests here.
Thrush, Varied--Rare and nests here.
Towhee, Brown.
Towhee, Rufous-sided.
Vireo, Hutton's.
Vireo, Solitary--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 18, and their average fall departure was on September 14.
Common and nests here.
Vireo, Warbling--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on May 5,
and their average fall departure was on August 10. Rare and nests
here.
Vulture, Turkey--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
March 23, and their average fall departure was on September 24.
Common.
Warbler, Black-throated Gray--Summer resident; their average spring arrival
was on April 20, and their average fall departure was on September 18.
Nests here.
Warbler, Hermit--Their average spring arrival was on May 14.
Warbler, MacGillivray's--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was
on May 1, and their average fall departure was on August 23. Rare and
nests here.
Warbler, Orange-crowned--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was
on April 11, and their average fall departure on September 2. Rare
and nests here.
Warbler, Townsend's--Passing migrant; their average spring arrival was on
May 9.
Warbler, Wilson's--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
May 6, and their average fall departure on September 14. Rare and
nests here.
Warbler, Yellow--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
May 2, and their average fall departure on August 30. Rare and nests
here.
Warbler, Yellow-rumped.
Audubon's subspecies--Their average spring arrival was on March 10.
Common and nests here.
Myrtle subspecies--Passing migrant; their average spring arrival was on
April 2. Rare and does not nest here.
Waxwing, Bohemian--25 Jan. 1917 and Jan. 1920. Rare and does not nest
here.
Waxwing, Cedar--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
May 19, and their average fall departure was on September 24. Common
and nests here.
Woodpecker, Downy.
Woodpecker, Hairy.
Woodpecker, Pileated.
Wood-Pewee, see Pewee
Wren, Bewick's.
Wren, House--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on April 26,
and their average fall departure was on September 12. Common and
nests here.
Wren, Winter--Winter resident.
Yellowlegs, Greater--Rare and does not nest here.
Yellowthroat, Common--Summer resident; their average spring arrival was on
April 22, and their average fall departure was on September 9. Common
and nests here.
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All of her trips to the Oregon coast are indicated by county (e.g., Clatsop, Lincoln, and Tillamook counties) as all her trips out of the state (e.g., to British Columbia, California, Idaho, and Yellowstone Park). If determinable, the affiliation or a brief description is given for each person in parentheses. Abbreviations for some affiliations include: BS=Biological Survey, OAS=Oregon (Portland) Audubon Society, OSU=Oregon State University, PO=Portland "Oregonian," UO=University of Oregon. The volume of French's notebooks in which an entry was found at least once is indicated by a "v"; for example, "v33" indicates that an entry was found in volume 33 of her notebooks.
To find annotations for these entries, look in Appendix II for v1 through v42 and Appendix III for v43 through v46.
Allen, John Eliot (Or. Dept. of Geology)(v33)
Armstrong, Irene ("Christian Science Monitor" writer)(v25)
Ashoff, Mr. (Oregon artist-naturalist)(v17)
Auk (v19, v26)
Avery, Carlos (Pres. American Protection and Propagation Association in New
York)(v20)
Bailey, Florence (Mrs. Vernon Bailey)(writer of natural history)(v2, v13b,
v14)
Bailey, Vernon (BS)(v13b)
Barber, Olive ("Bird Lady" of Coos Bay)(v36)
Bargelt, E. S. (OAS)(v29)
Bidwell, Mr. (OAS)(v11, v19)
Biological Survey (v4, v6, v15, v24, v27, v30, v31)
Bird-Lore (v2, v7, v19)
Bishop, Mr. (of "Oregon Journal")(v17)
Blair, Miss M. G. (Oregon State Library)(v26)
Book, French's proposed (v14, v17, v27, v29, v44, v45)
Books known to be seen or possessed by French
-Audubon's Birds of America (v37)
-Florence Bailey's A-Birding on a Broncho (v14)
-Florence Bailey's (1902) Handbook of Birds of the Western United
States (v2, v14)
-Ernest S. Booth's Birds of the West (v41)
-Dawson's Birds of California (v6, v17)
-Dawson's Birds of Washington (v10)
-Willard A. Eliot's (1923) Birds of the Pacific Coast (v20)
-William L. Finley's Birds of America [sic, probably American Birds
Studied and Photographed from Life ?] (v17)
-Gabrielson and Jewett's (1940) Birds of Oregon (v32, v33)
-Florence Page Jacques Birds across the Sky (v36)
-Roger Tory Peterson's Birds over America (v41)
-Charles F. Saunder's The Western Flower Guide (v11)
-P.A. Taverner's (1926) Birds of Western Canada (v28)
-Trafton's Bird Friends (v10)
-Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selbourne (v34, v37, v44)
-unknown author Birds of Kansas (v13a)
Booth, E. S. See Books.
Botany, French's (v7, v8, v11, v13a, v16, v17, v29)
Boy Scouts, French's Instruction of (v26, v27, v28, v30, v31, v40)
Braly, Mr. [J.C.?] (Oregon amateur ornithologist)(v26)
Brand, Mr. (OAS)(v11)
British Columbia, French's trip to (v34, v44)
Bruce, Sadie (school teacher)(v26)
Bryant, Dr. Harold C. (Cal. Fish and Game Commission; Natl. Park Service)
(v17, v20, v21, v24)
California, French's trip to (v10, v17, v18, v21, v31)
California Academy of Sciences, visit to (v10, v17)
Carlton Farm, 1912-1944 (v37)
Camera, French's (v7, v9, v10)
Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. [A.L.?](OAS)(v31)
Carlton Observation Post, see Observation Post
Chapman, Dr. Frank M. (Am. Mus. Natural History)(v30, v44)
Clatsop County, French's Trip to (v39)
Clifford, Mrs. J. M. (bird lady in Salem)(v17)
Condor (v21, v24, v26)
Cooper's Club (v18, v24), also see Condor.
-meeting attended by French (v18)
Cowan, Dr. Ian McTaggart (British Columbia ornithologist)(v34, v44)
Crowell, Mr. (OAS)(v19, v22, v24)
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Dawson, Mr. See Books.
Dayton, move to in 1944 (v37, v38)
Dimick, Prof. R. E. (OSU)(v28, v29, v30, v34)
DuBois, H. M. (OAS)(v29)
Dyment, C.V. (v6)
Einarsen, A. S. (BS, OSU)(v30, v33)
Eliot, Mr. Willard Ayres (OAS)(v11, v14, v18, v19, v20, v22, v23, v24, v26,
v29, v31)
Eliot, Mrs. Willard A. (OAS)(v18, v26, v31)
Erskine, Mr. (OAS)(v26)
Evans, W. W. (Mazamas)(v8, v17)
Evermann, Dr. (Cal. Academy of Sciences)(v10)
Fear, Dr. Lois (OAS)(v26)
Ferris, Reed (Tillamook Co. amateur ornithologist)(v32, v33)
Finley, Irene (Mrs. William L. Finley)(OAS; writer)(v10, v11)
Finley, William L. (OAS; writer)(v4, v8, v10, v11, v17, v24)
Flowers, see Botany
Ford, Donald (OAS)(v26)
Gabrielson, Ira N. (BS; OAS; writer)(v24), see also Books.
Gaylord, Thelma (OSU)(v29)
Gilbert, Harold S. (OAS)(v23, v25, v26, v29)
Gilkey, Dr. Helen M. (OSU)(v29)
Gilmore, Prof. (California professor)(v10)
Girl Scouts, French's Instruction of (v27, v28, v29)
Gordon, Kenneth (OSU)(v28)
Gordon, Seth (Izaak Walton League)(v24)
Green, Bess (OSU)(v22)
Grinnell, Dr. Joseph (west coast ornithologist)(v10, v19, v21)
Gubser, Lynn (Yamhill County School Superintendent)(v29)
Haines, Theodora (St. Mary's Academy teacher)(v17)
Hendrick, Miss (McMinnville teacher?)(v13a)
Horsfall, R. Bruce (OAS, artist-naturalist; obituary in 1948 Murrelet
29:12)(v8, v10, v11, v14, v16, v17, v24)
Horsfall, Mrs. R. Bruce (OAS)(v10, v11, v13a, v14)
Horsfall, R. Bruce, Jr. (OAS)(v17)
Hospitalization, French's (v30)
Hutchin's, Charlie (radio speaker about birds)(v18)
Idaho, French's Trip to (v41)
Izaak Walton League (v24)
Jacques, F. P. See Books.
Jewett, Stanley G. (BS; OAS; writer)(v14, v27, v33, v44), also see Books.
Jewett, Stanley G., Jr. (OSU)(v29)
Ladd, Mr. and/or Mrs. Charles E. (They were neighbors and not all mentions
of Mrs. Ladd were recorded)(v6, v7, v10, v13a [Charles died], v13b)
Lampman, Ben Hur (PO)(v20, v23, v31, v36, v37, v39)
Lincoln County bird observations (v23, v27, v29, v31, v34)
Long, Harriet C. (librarian at State Library at Salem)(v26, v27)
Marvin, Miss (writes up French's first KGW talk)(v17)
Mazamas, visit to French Farm (v8, v17)
McCool, James H. (PO)(listed many times starting with v22)
McLeod, J. H. (PO)(v20)
Monroe, Anne Shannon (Oregon writer)(v16)
Mother's Death, Grace's (v26)
Muth, Dr. (OSU)(v29)
Nature Magazine (v17, v24, v29)
Newspaper articles about or by French were too numerous to all index and
the name of the newspaper was often not given, so newspaper clippings
are not indexed by each newspaper. A list of papers with clippings by
or about French include:
-Carlton "Herald" (v26)
-Carlton "Sentinel" (v11, v13a, v15, v17)
-"Christian Science Monitor" (v25)
-Coos Bay "Times" (v11)
-Dayton "Tribune" (v41)
-McMinnville "News-Reporter" (this paper carried French's column,
"Signs of the Season" periodically)
-Portland "Oregonian" (she mentions Ben Hur Lampman, J. H. McLeod, and
James H. McCool by name)
-"A Farm Woman Speaks" (v20, v21[she received $11 from the
"Oregonian" for this article],, v22 [reprinted by Oregon
Federation of Women's Clubs and Portland Audubon Society])
-Portland "Oregon Journal" (v17, v41)[only mentioned twice]
Nissen, Mr. and Mrs. (v24)
Northrup, Miss (biology teacher at McMinnville High School)(v13a)
Northwest Background (v40)
Observation Post for Japanese aircraft (v34, v35, v36, v37)
Oregon Agricultural College, see Oregon State University
Oregon Audubon Society, see Portland Audubon Society
Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs (v13a, v16, v22, v24, v25, v29, v40)
-Chairman of Conservation Committee (v13a, v22, v40)
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Oregon State College, see Oregon State University
Oregon State Fair, French's Visit to (v8, v23, v25)
Oregon State Game Commission (v19, v24, v25, v26)
-possible appointment of French as Educational Director (v19)
-possible appointment by Gov. Norblad to vacancy in Commission (v24,
v25)
Oregon State Library at Salem (v26, v27, v31, v32, v34, v36)
Oregon State University (v4, v6, v22, v25, v28, v29, v30, v31, v33, v34)
Oregon, Univ. of (v7, v8, v21, v34, v44)
Oregon Wildlife Federation
-Yamhill County Director (1936 v29, 1937 v30)
Peavy, Pres. (OSU)(v29)
Peterson, R. T. See Books.
Plants, see Botany
Plummer, Mr. (v25)
Poetry, French's (v17, v21, v28, v31, v33, v36, v41)
Portland Audubon Society, also see Speechs
-field trip to French farm (v19, v23, v25, v26, v27, v29, v33)
-French appointed Director (v18)
-reprinting of "A Farm Woman Speaks" (v22)
Powers, Alfred (UO)(v34, v44)
Prill, A. G., M.D. (amateur naturalist in Scio)(v37, v39)
Radio talks, French's
-KGO (San Francisco) (v18)
-KGW (v17, v18, v26)
-KOAC (v29, v41)
-KOIN (v20, v24, v36)
Ragon, Maude (OAS)(v26)
Raker, Mary (OAS)(v10, v13a, v13b,, v14, v23)
Raker, William S. (OAS)(v10, v11, v13a, v13b, v15, v17, v18, v19, v20, v21,
v22, v23, v24, v25, v26, v27, v28, v29, v30)
Rogers, Tom (v25)
Sandoz, Helen (editor Northwest Background)(v40)
Saunders, C. F. See Books.
Scouts, see Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts
Sears, Dr. (OAS)(v10)
Simon, Leo (OAS)(v19, v22)
Speeches, French's (also see Radio Talks)
-Carlton Chamber of Commerce (v27)
-Carlton Civic Club (v14, v29)
-Carlton Farmer's Union (v32)
-Carlton Grange (v13a, v14, v22 [elected Lecturer])
-Carlton Needle Club (v11, v13a)
-Carlton Parent-Teacher Association (v10, v13a)
-Carlton School (v7, v14)
-Dayton Civic Club (v38)
-Dayton Grade School (v39)
-Dayton Reading Club (v39)
-Gaston Civic Club (v18)
-granges, unspecified (v11, v29, v39)
-McMinnville Civic Club (v15)
-McMinnville Current Events Club (v14, v40)
-McMinnville Garden Club (v25, v30, v40, v41, v42)
-McMinnville High School (v13a)
-McMinnville Kiwanis (v22)
-McMinnville Pomona Grange (v13a, v17, v32)
-McMinnville St. Barnabas Guild (v26, v27)
-McMinnville Self Improvement Club (v20)
-McMinnville Women's Club (v28)
-Oregon (Portland) Audubon Society (v6, v9, v10, v11, v13a, v14, v16,
v17, v19, v24, v25, v26, v29)
-Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs (v16, v24, v29)
-Oregon State Game Commission (v26)
-Oregon State University (v25, v28, v29)
-Salem Women's Club (v25)
-schools, unspecified (v15, v20)
-Sheridan Grange (v14)
-White Cloud School (v10, v25)
-Yamhill County Federation of Women's Clubs (v20, v29)
Stephens, Eleanor (State Library at Salem?)(v36)
Sweetser, Prof. (Head of Dept. of Botany at UO) (v7, v8)
Sykes, Prof. (OSU?)(v4, v6)
Taverner, P. A. See Books.
Tillamook County bird observations (v3, v10, v16, v23, v32, v34, v41)
Todd, Donald (Univ. of Washington Librarian)(v34)
Trafton, Mr. See Books.
Univ. of Oregon, see Oregon, Univ. of
Walker, Alex (Tillamook Co. amateur naturalist)(v29, v32)
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Walker, Rosaline (Mrs. Alex Walker)(Tillamook Co. amateur naturalist)(v36,
v40, v41)
Welles, Mr. and Mrs. (KOIN radio)(v20, v24)
Welty, Dr. (recognized ornithologist back east)(v4, v6)
White, Gilbert. See Books.
Whitely, Opal (bird woman of Eugene) (v10)
Who's Who in Oregon, French's Entry (v20, v23)
Wilson, Maud (OSU)(v28)
Wilson, Nils (BS, OSU)(v31)
Women's Clubs, Oregon Federation of, see Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs
Yellowstone Park, French's Trip to (v41)
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Most of these notebooks were about 3.5 inches wide by 6 inches high by a 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Her handwriting is in pencil and is pretty legible. The pages are not disintegrating.
"She" in this Synopsis refers only to Grace McCormac French. The date given for newspaper clippings is the date the clipping was pasted in her notebook or the date she wrote in the notebook; for some of these clippings it is possible that the date given is the date she received the newspaper rather than the day the paper was published.
This Appendix is Indexed in Appendix I.
Vol. 1: 1911-1915
Most of her field notes are for 1914 and 1915 are in this notebook. She
has arranged notes by bird species; an index is in the back of the
notebook.
Vol. 2: 19 April-29 Aug. 1915
10 June 1915. In Portland, she bought Florence Bailey's Handbook of Birds
of the Western United States.
15 June 1915. She subscribed to Bird Lore.
Vol. 3: 31 Aug.-17 Oct. 1915
30 Aug.-2 Sept. 1915. She went to Tillamook County for summer vacation and
made some bird notes.
Vol. 4: 18 Oct. 1915-16 Jan. 1916
4 Nov. 1915. She was thinking of a name for a story she wanted to write.
30 Nov. 1915. She received letters from Mr. Finley and Prof. Sykes.
7 Dec. 1915. She wrote: "Prepared stuff for letters to O.A.C. [Oregon
Agricultural College] and Mr. Finley all afternoon.
14 Jan. 1916. She received a letter from Dr. Welty and mailed letters to
the Biological Survey.
Vol. 5 did not contain field notes, see "Contents of French's Notebooks
withOUT Field Notes."
Vol. 6: 16 Jan.-27 March 1916
24 Jan. 1916. She wrote Dr. Welty.
26 Jan. 1916. She received "blanks" [forms] from the Biological Survey;
presumably they were for keeping migration records.
28 Jan. 1916. She received a letter from Prof. Sykes with a list of
Corvallis birds.
12 Feb. 1916. She spoke at a Oregon (Portland) Audubon Society meeting.
[This group will be referred to as the Portland Audubon Society
hereafter.]
26 Feb. 1916. She visits Mrs. Charles E. Ladd and sees Dawson's three
volume Birds of California and realizes that she has overlooked some
birds.
6 March 1916. She wrote C.V. Dyment.
11 March 1916. She is anxious to hear back from Dyment about a course in
Journalism.
Vol. 7: 28 March-31 May 1916
5 April 1916. She received an unsigned letter from the Univ. of Oregon
Dept. of Zoology.
12 April 1916. She received a Bird-Lore.
22 April 1916. She mailed a story to the "Monitor." [Which "Monitor" is
not stated.]
2 May 1916. She wrote: "I have simply got to have a camera and room to do
my own developing."
3 May 1916. She wrote a letter to Univ. of Oregon about taking a botany
course instead of the bird course. Mrs. Ladd told Grace that
Mrs. Ladd had about 100 books on flowers.
8 May 1916. Grace received first lessons in Botany course and also some
outlines for bird work.
10 May 1916. She was spending a lot of time collecting flowers now.
Mr. Ladd talked to Grace about some of the birds she had shown the
Ladd's daughter Felicia.
12 May 1916. She received a Kodak [camera] from her father.
24 May 1916. She received an invitation to speak at the Carlton School.
25 May 1916. She agreed to speak at the Carlton School. She cut bird
pictures from magazines to show children. She spoke on May 26th
(State Bird Day) to the 6th and 7th grades.
31 May 1916. She sent two plants to Prof. Sweetser.
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Vol. 8: 1 June-31 Dec. 1916
2 June 1916. She wrote: "35th birthday" and "The children make many
comments on my talk of last Friday and I appreciate it. For a child's
compliment is sincere. Many mothers have told me what the children
said also. I hope I can awake a real love of birds in their hearts."
6 June 1916. She received a letter from Prof. Sweetser identifying the
plants.
8 June 1916. She has included two newspaper clippings about W.W. Evans
leading a Mazama climb of Mount Pisgah near McMinnville and then
stopping and visiting the French's. Unfortunately the date and source
of the clippings is not given.
23 June 1916. She was gone when Mr. Finley and the local game warden
(Mr. Parker) came out to take pictures.
24 Aug. 1916. She received a letter from Mr. Finley.
25 Aug. 1916. She went to the State Fair in Salem. R. Bruce Horsfall was
in charge of the booth for the Fish and Game Commission; they had a
long talk.
Vol. 9: 1 Jan.-25 May 1917
10 Jan. 1917. She got back today the first pictures she ever took.
3 Feb. 1917. She spoke at the Portland Audubon Society.
Vol. 10: 26 May 1917-30 April 1918
2 June 1917. Mrs. Ladd gave her a book Bird Friends by Trafton [sp. ?].
21-24 July 1917. She made a trip to Tillamook County; she made some bird
notes.
14 Dec. 1917. She spoke to children at the White Cloud school.
11-13 Jan. 1918. She went to Portland to hear the Audubon Program by
Wm. L. Finley. She attended a party with Mr. and Mrs. Finley and
Mr. and Mrs. Horsfall at the Horsfall's. On Jan. 12, she talked for
the Portland Audubon. R. Bruce Horsfall also showed her his
collection of bird study skins. Dr. Sears offered to send her his
camera for photographing birds.
21 Jan. 1918. She visited Berkeley, California; probably to see her
mother. She gave a letter from R. Horsfall to Dr. Joseph Grinnell,
personally. She was impressed with Grinnell.
22 Jan. 1918. She visited the Cal. Academy of Sciences in San Francisco
and gave a letter from Horsfall to Dr. Evermann, who was very
encouraging to her. She looked at a lot of bird study skins.
1 Feb. 1918. She rode with Prof. Gilmore from Berkeley to Davis, and they
talked about birds.
31 March 1918. She visited Mrs. Ladd, who showed her Dawson's Birds of
Washington.
19 April 1918. Mr. Raker from Portland visited.
21 April 1918. Mr. Raker, Mary Raker, and Mr. and Mrs. Horsfall visited
Grace.
23 April 1918. She spoke to the Parent-Teacher Association in Carlton.
Spring arrivals for 1918 are in the last few pages of this notebook.
She listed Opal Whitely of Eugene as a "Bird woman."
Vol. 11: 1 May-15 Nov. 1918, Feb.-25 Dec. 1919, Jan.-27 Feb. 1920
16 June 1918. Visitors to her farm from Portland included R. Bruce
Horsfall, Mr. Raker, Mr. Eliot, Mr. Brand, and Mr. Bidwell.
18 June 1918. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Horsfall and Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. L. Finley. Mr. Finley brought his movie camera and filmed a
White-breasted Nuthatch family inside one of Grace's bird houses.
They stayed overnight.
2 April 1919. Grace received a journal from the museum at Santa Barbara.
12 April 1919. She received a letter from Mr. Raker saying that she was
to be a patroness of the Art Exhibit of the Portland Audubon Society.
19 April 1919. She attended a lecture and movie by Finley at Portland
Library; his movies included pictures of the White-breasted Nuthatch
taken at Grace's place.
21 April 1919. She went on a car trip with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Finley.
2 May 1919. Mr. Raker visited and stayed the night.
24 Dec. 1919. She received a gift of Charles Francis Saunders' The Western
Flower Guide.
24 Jan. 1920. While in Portland, Mr. Raker took Grace and Mrs. Horsfall to
a trip to Reed Lake. Mrs. Horsfall wants to work with Grace in
writing articles.
25 Jan. 1920. The "Oregonian" carried an article about her Jan. 24 talk at
the Portland Audubon Society to protest hunters shooting on farms
without permission. An article was also in Coos Bay "Times" and the
Carlton "Sentinel." Copies of articles are included in her notebook.
11 Feb. 1920. She spoke about birds at the Carlton Needle Club.
12 Feb. 1920. She goes to see Mr. and Mrs. Ladd; he is very ill but wants
to talk about birds with her.
14 Feb. 1920. She was installed as a Lecturer in the Grange and will speak
several times about birds at various Granges.
9 March 1920. She is to speak at Carlton Parent-Teacher's meeting on
"Local Birds and the Game Laws."
13 March 1920. She is to speak at Pomona Grange on "Insect Pests and Birds
that Protect the Orchards."
3 April 1920. She is to speak in McMinnville.
Vol. 12 did not contain field notes, see "Contents of French's Notebooks
withOUT Field Notes."
Vol. 13a: 1 March-19 May 1920
Part of the spring arrival dates for 1920 are in the first few pages of this
notebook.
24 Jan. 1920. She lectured at the Portland Audubon Society.
11 Feb. 1920. She gave a talk at the Carlton Needle Club.
11 March 1920. She is listed in the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs book
as chairman of the Conservation Committee.
13 March 1920. She spoke at the Carlton Grange about the value of birds in
the orchard; she included a newspaper clipping about her talk.
20 March 1920. She noted that Charles E. Ladd died and that he had been a
lover of nature.
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28 March 1920. She went to McMinnville to see Miss Hendrick and met
Miss Northrup, a teacher of biology at McMinnville High School. Grace
said that she and Northrup have been corresponding about bird study,
and that Grace had promised to speak to Northrup's class some day.
3 April 1920. She talked at the Pomona Grange in McMinnville.
13 April 1920. She talked at the Carlton Parent-Teachers meeting. A
clipping mentioning her talk is pasted on one of the last pages of
this notebook.
14 April 1920. Grace had talked about birds the previous night, and
Mary Raker may have wrote an article about it for this day's
"Oregonian."
18 April 1920. Grace had requested that the Editor of the Carlton
"Sentinel" write an article advising parents to teach their children
not to destroy wildflowers; the Editor wrote it, and a clipping of
it (April 16, "By Way of Comment) is pasted in one of the last pages.
23 April 1920. She lectured to Northrup's senior biology class at
McMinnville.
6 May 1920. She received a book Birds of Kansas as a gift.
16 May 1920. Mr. Raker, Mary Raker, Mrs. Tutle [sp. ?], and Mrs. Horsfall
arrived, and they spent the afternoon in the woods. She showed
Mrs. Horsfall her story about forest birds and planned to mail it
soon.
Near the end, she has pasted in a clipping by Mary E. Raker that was
entitled "Spring-time and the Birds." Mary's picture is included.
Unfortunately, Grace did not give the date or source of publication.
It is probably from the Portland "Spectator."
She also included a clipping from the Portland "Spectator" by W.S. Raker
entitled the "Audubon Society's Exhibit" Grace was listed as a
"patroness" for the exhibit.
Vol. 13b: 20 May-30 Dec. 1920
A complete set of 1920 spring arrivals and some fall departures are in the
first few pages of this notebook.
24 May 1920. Mr. Raker said that Mary Raker liked Grace's story.
25 May 1920. Mrs. Ladd gave Grace some rare old copies of a magazine
describing western birds.
17 June 1920. She circulated initiative petitions to get the Roosevelt
Bird Refuge on the ballot and got 22 names.
19 June 1920. She mailed in 3 initiative petitions for Roosevelt Bird
Refuge; only 3 men refused to sign.
28 Sept. 1920. Mr. Raker arrived with Vernon and Florence Bailey for a
visit. Mrs. Florence Bailey had written several books including
The Handbook of Birds of the Western United States.
Vol. 14: 1 Jan.-18 May 1921
Part of the spring arrivals for 1921 are at the start of this notebook.
3 Dec. 1920. She talked at the Portland Audubon Society, according to a
note inside the back cover.
30 Jan. 1921. She mentions that reading A-birding on a Broncho by
Mrs. Florence Bailey and a book by Porter were inspiring and would
help her with writing her own book.
1 March 1921. She spoke about swallows at the Carlton Civic Club; an
article in Carlton(?) paper is included.
19 March 1921. She spoke about orchard birds at the Sheridan Grange.
23 March 1921. She went to Portland to talk with Mrs. Horsfall and
Mr. Eliot about her next lecture at the Portland Audubon Society and
the book she was writing.
5 April 1921. She spoke at the Carlton Civic Club.
9 April 1921. She spoke about birds at a Carlton Grange meeting.
15 April 1921. Mary Raker visited; the next day Mary gave a bird talk at
the Pomona Grange in Sheridan.
23 April 1921. She lectured at the Portland Audubon Society on "The Bird
Procession at Maplewood Farm."
28 April 1921. She gave the same lecture as on April 23 at the McMinnville
Current Events Club.
3 May 1921. She lectured for two different classes at the Carlton School.
4 May 1921. Mr. Horsfall wrote her that a sparrow she had found had been
identified by S. G. Jewett as a Lincoln's Sparrow.
7 May 1921. She received a letter from Mrs. Florence Bailey with a copy of
her 1920 Handbook of Birds of the Western U.S.
[Note that the volume of her field notes has appeared to decrease as she
has become more active with talks.]
Vol. 15: 19 May-5 August 1921, 10 Jan.-14 May 1922
1921 spring arrivals dates are listed at the start of this notebook.
28 Feb. 1922. She received a letter from the Biological Survey asking
about the breeding dates of ducks and geese.
11 March 1922. She asked the editor of the Carlton "Sentinel" to put a
request in the newspaper for the arrival date of swallows.
25 March 1922. The editor of the "Sentinel" asked her to decorate the
windows of the "Sentinel" with bird houses and pictures.
13 April 1922. She received a letter from Mr. Raker.
28 April 1922. She gave a talk at the No. 8 school. Three of the boys
made bird houses for Grace to judge.
4 May 1922. She lectured at the McMinnville Civic Club.
1922 Spring Arrivals prior to 15 May are listed at the end of this
notebook.
Vol. 16: 18 May-10 Oct. 1922
Her address is listed as Box 40, R.F.D. 1, Carlton, Or.
1922 Spring Arrivals (including late May and June) are listed at the start
of this notebook.
20 May 1922. She sent a mountain lady slipper to R. Bruce Horsfall.
30 May-2 June 1922. She went by train to Tillamook to attend a convention
of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs. She spoke on "Conservation
of Oregon Natural Resources." She lists a few Tillamook Co. birds.
She made a special note that she listened to Anne Shannon Monroe's
talk on "Noted Oregon Writers."
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8 Sept. 1922. She spoke at the Portland Audubon Society on "When the Birds
Come north Again."
Vol. 17: 13 Oct. 1922-22 Aug. 1924
1923 Spring arrivals are at the start of this notebook.
14-28 Oct. 1922. She went to San Francisco and attended the Industrial
Exposition. She saw some bird exhibits and met some ladies interested
in conservation. One of them, Mrs. Harold Wilson, was with the
League of American Penwomen. She also visited the aviary at Golden
Gate Park and viewed the mounted specimens at the California Academy
of Sciences. She also went on a bird walk with Dr. H. C. Bryant. She
travelled with Fred, who did some waterfowl hunting. They arrived in
Eugene after going through Ashland on Nov. 4. The purpose of this
trip was probably to see her mother who lived in Berkeley.
14 Dec. 1922. She mentions that she had put a note in the Carlton
"Sentinel" about all the Varied Thrushes.
30 March 1923. While in Portland, she was asked by Mr. Evans, of the
Mazamas, if they could visit her place again like they did in 1916.
31 March 1923. She gave a lecture to the Portland Audubon Society on "When
the Birds Come North Again." She used some of Horsfall's slides and
also some of her own.
5 April 1923. She went to McMinnville and spoke about conservation and
birds.
14 April 1923. Bruce Horsfall, Jr. arrived for the weekend.
2 May 1923. She sent a box of wild flowers to Theodora Haines (sp.?) at
St. Mary's Academy for botany work.
12 May 1923. She, Theodora, and another lady went around the French's farm
collecting wild flowers.
16 June 1923. On the spur of the moment, she gave a talk at the
McMinnville Grange on the value of wild birds. She decides to prepare
several short bird talks, so that she "won't be caught unawares
again."
22 April 1924. She remarks about an article in the "Oregonian." She
evidently reads this paper regularly as she had also previously
mentioned articles in it, previously.
12 May 1924. She is advised to call her radio talk "Bird Life in Oregon."
9 June 1924. She read a 30 minute talk on the KGW radio station entitled
"Birds of the Northwest and Books about them."
28 June 1924. Mr. Raker paid an overnight visit.
9 July 1924. Miss Cornelia Marvin (sp.?) requests permission to publish
her KGW radio talk.
11 July 1924. She considered naming her book A Farmer's Wife and the
Birds. She wrote this suggestion to Miss Marvin.
15 July 1924. She received a letter from Nature Magazine offering to pay
her for any bird story that they accepted.
19 July 1924. Miss Marvin drove in from Salem and brought Dawson's three
volume Birds of California. Grace mentioned that Miss Marvin was
interested in Grace's effort to write.
24 July 1924. She was reading Dawson's books and writing her book.
3 August 1924. She considered titling a book of her "more sophisticated
poems" as Wing Shadows.
13 August 1924. While on vacation in the Mt. Hood area, she visited a
Mr. Ashoff, who was an artist with a log cabin museum of mounted
animals and birds. She said: "Mr. Ashoff is a real person and meeting
him made up for the rough ride."
13 August 1924. The Forest Ranger at Government Camp had heard of her and
made a special effort to show her around. She met a Mr. Bishop of the
"Oregon Journal" at the Hotel.
14 Aug. 1924. They travelled with Mr. Bishop around Mt. Hood.
15-17 August 1924. During this trip, she met and talked with various
Indians. Their car broke down south of Corvallis and had to be towed
in. While in Corvallis, she bought Finley's Birds of America [sic,
probably American Birds Studied and Photographed from Life] and a
loose leaf note book for her poems.
The spring arrivals for 1924 are given at the end of this, along with the
addresses and phone numbers of two "bird women" (Miss Susan E.
Chattin [sp.?] and Miss Catherine Flinn [sp.?] in Berkeley, California
and a "bird lady" (Mrs. J. M. Clifford) in Salem.
Vol. 18: 23 Aug.-4 Dec. 1924, 24 Feb.-30 Sept. 1925
20 Sept. 1924. Mr. Raker visited and discussed her appointment as a
Director of the Oregon (Portland) Audubon Society.
11 Oct. 1924. She went to the Pomona Grange and there was a discussion
with Mr. Burt about a "hunting story." The hunters were excited about
the story, but it is not clear if she wrote the story or not.
12 Oct. 1924. She apparently wrote an article because when there was some
shooting, her husband said it was her fault.
14 Oct. 1924. A neighbor was also going to close his farm to hunting; he
had lost a horse.
15 Oct. 1924. She had a direct confrontation with some hunters that wanted
to hunt on their farm.
23 Oct. 1924. Several people have told her that her stories in the
"News-Reporter and Carlton "Sentinel" about game laws have helped.
[Note that she does not mention these stories specifically in this
notebook.]
8 Nov. 1924. The "News-Reporter" prints her story about hunters.
25 Feb. 1925. She sent a letter about swallows to the "Oregonian."
27 Feb. 1925. Her letter was printed in the "Oregonian."
2 March 1925. The "Oregonian" had a "lovely" Editorial about her swallow
letter.
6 March 1925. She spoke about birds to the Gaston Civic Club.
10 May 1925. Mr. Raker brought out Mr. and Mrs. Eliot to visit; they told
her about some of the name changes in birds.
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30 July 1925. She was at the Cooper's Club meeting.
3-18 August 1925. She was still in California at Asilomar with her mother,
and Grace also went elsewhere in California.
7 August 1925. She gave out several copies of her KGW radio talk.
17 Aug. 1925. She gave a talk about "Western Birds" on KGO, a
San Francisco radio station.
21 Aug. 1925. She arrived back home and was met by Alfred. She included
some field notes for the Ashland area.
24 Aug. 1925. She received a postcard from Claude W. Brown, Baker, Oregon,
who had heard her KGO talk.
18 Sept. 1925. She heard Charlie Hutchin's speech about birds on KOA radio
from Denver.
20 Sept. 1925. Mr. Raker visited.
Vol. 19: 1 Oct.-21 Dec. 1925, 11 Feb.-18 Oct. 1926, 15 Jan.-25 Dec. 1927
Spring arrival dates are given at the start of this notebook.
2 Oct. 1925. Mr. Raker arrived. He and John Gile want to propose her as
the Educational Director to be appointed by the State Game Commission.
8 Oct. 1925. She said she declined to consider the appointment.
10 Oct. 1925. Mr. Raker wrote her that he was going to present her name to
the Game Commission anyhow.
12-13 Oct. 1925. She put up "No Trespassing" signs around her property.
4 Nov. 1925. For 3 days, she has been writing an article on "Northern
Violet-green Swallows" to send Dr. Joseph Grinnell.
21 Dec. 1925. She lists today's sightings as a Bird-Lore census.
25 April 1926. Mr. W. A. Eliot, Mr. Bidwell, Mr. Crowell, and Mr. Simon
arrived to go birding at her farm.
11 Nov. 1927. She spoke about migration at the Portland Audubon Society.
Spring migration for 1927 is listed on her pages 182-184.
Spring migration for 1926 is listed on her pages 188-190.
She has notes on her page 196 about Dr. J. Grinnell's article in Auk about
introducing game birds; she evidently was aware of articles in Auk.
Vol. 20:14 Feb.-30 June 1928
Spring arrivals for 1928 are listed on her pages 002-004.
On her p. 009, she has a copy of a 2 Feb. 1928 newspaper article that she
wrote giving the arrival dates of Am. Robins from 1916 to 1927. The
name of the newspaper is not given.
1 March 1928. She is requested by Who's Who in Oregon to send her
biography, so that she can be included.
She has cutouts of birds from some field guide pasted to several of the
pages in this notebook.
9 March 1928. She wrote to Mr. J. H. McLeod of "Wild-Life Lines" in the
"Oregonian."
11 March 1928. A full column editorial about her work is in the
"Oregonian."
12 March 1928. Her letter to McLeod is published in the "Oregonian."
7 April 1928. She received gift of candy and a handkerchief from
Mrs. Velma (sp.?) D. Welles of KOIN for bird notes that Grace had sent
for radio programs.
12 April 1928. She drove to McMinnville and spoke at the Self Improvement
Club; her talk was entitled "Where to find the Wild Birds." She used
Eliot's book to illustrate the talk.
20 April 1928. She spoke at the Pioneer School District 1.
25 April 1928. Mr. Raker arrived with "news about nature work and bird
students." She met Marsh N. Dana at the Pomona Grange.
29 April 1928. "Wild-Life Lines" in the "Oregonian" mentioned her story
about hunters.
12 May 1928. "Wild-Life Lines" printed the first installment of her story
"A Farm Woman Speaks."
13 May 1928. The "Oregonian" had a cartoon about the need for more game
refuges; Grace pasted it in her notebook.
19 May 1928. She gave a 10 minute talk on conservation at the County
Federation of Women's Clubs at Dayton.
20 May 1928. She says that the fifth chapter of her story ("A Farm Woman
Speaks") was printed in the "Oregonian."
22 May 1928. She received two pamphlets about birds from Dr. Harold C.
Bryant.
29 May 1928. She received a request from Carlos Avery, President of the
American Protection and Propagation Association in New York to write
an opinion about the "Relation of Sportsmen and Land Owner." She
comments that the hunters of the East are more enlightened than those
of the West.
Spring arrivals for 1927 [actually 1928?] are on her pages 188-190.
A newspaper clipping is included from "Oregonian" with an article by
Ben Hur Lampman for 11 March (?) 1928 that was entitled "When the
Birds Come Back to Carlton" that was about Grace's observations.
Vol. 21: 1 July-30 Sept. 1928
Spring arrivals for 1927 and 1928 are at the start of this notebook.
7 July 1928. Part of her Club Report was published in the "Wild-Life
Series" in the "Oregonian."
20 July 1928. Mr. Raker arrived.
26 July 1928. The "Oregonian" was going to send payment for her
"A Farm Woman Speaks."
6 Aug. 1928. She received $11 from the "Oregonian" for her "A Farm Woman
Speaks."
11 Aug. 1928. She talked at a Grange with the County Agent; her article "A
Farm Woman Speaks" has received heavy fire from the hunters and also
women who are hunters. A Salem woman, the wife of a doctor, printed a
letter attacking Grace's article in a Salem paper.
25 Aug. 1928. She received a letter from Dr. Harold C. Bryant about her
article "A Farm Woman Speaks."
30 Aug. 1928. She and her family drove to Berkeley to visit her mother.
31 Aug. 1928. She had lunch with Mrs. Hilda Wilson and visited studios of
National Broadcasting Company.
1 Sept. 1928. She and her mother visited the grave of Grace's father.
Grace commented about the birds around the cemetery.
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3 Sept. 1928. She visited Dr. Joseph Grinnell. "He wants me to carry on
my idea of the book on bird migration and prepare some manuscripts for
the Condor."
10 Sept. 1928. Her family left California and returned to Oregon.
In back of notebook, she had addresses for Dr. A. R. Moore (U. of Oregon,
Biology Dept.), Prof. M. E. Peck (Willamette Univ.), Dr. Louis K.
Poyntz (sp.?)(KGW), Elizabeth Hughes (Poetry Editor for Lariat),
Mrs. Rilla B. Thomas (Amity, Or.), editors of "Oregon Journal," and
Dr. H. C. Bryant (Cal. Fish and Game Commission).
In an envelope in the back, the five installments of her story "A Farm
Woman Speaks" that appeared in the "Oregonian" in the "Wild-Life
Lines" are cut out.
Vol. 22: 1 Oct. 1928-30 April 1929
5 Oct. 1928. Mr. Raker visited her, and they talked about "bird people."
28 Oct. 1928. She pasted in a notice from the day's "Oregonian" that she
had been appointed chairman of conservation for the Oregon Federation
of Women's Clubs.
18 Dec. 1928. "Mr. Shuley [sp.?] called, he took story to 'News-Reporter'
about swan."
12 Jan 1929. She was elected Lecturer of the Carlton Grange; she will go
on an all expenses trip to Oregon Agriculture College on Feb. 12-14
for Grange Lecture School.
13 Jan. 1929. Mr. W. A. Eliot and Mr. Crowell drove from Portland to ask
her to do some bird lecture work. She would be paid $2.50. She says:
"it is out of the question." The Portland Audubon Society voted to
fund reprinting her "A Farm Woman Speaks."
14 Jan. 1929. She sent a story to the "News-Reporter."
12 Feb. 1929. She went to Corvallis [see 12 Jan. 1929]; she met
Miss Bess Green, who taught about birds in the Zoology Dept. Grace
gave out copies of her radio talk on birds to the grange lecturers.
25 Feb. 1929. She received galley proofs for her "A Farm Woman Speaks."
She mailed it back 2 days later.
28 Feb. 1929. She saw a Tree Swallow; this was so early that she sent a
telegram about it to the news editor of the "Oregonian."
28 Feb.? 1929. An undated clipping of a newspaper article entitled "Signs
of the Season by Grace McCormac French" is included. The date of
publication or name of the newspaper is not given, but on the back of
the clipping it is clear that the newspaper was published in
McMinnville.
2 March 1929. Her swallow sighting was reported in the "Wild Life Lines"
by James H. McCool in the "Oregonian." A copy of this is pasted in
her notebook. McCool said that she was "Oregon's best-known woman
naturalist and authority on bird migrations."
5 March 1929. Mr. Teutch [sp.?] of the Oregon Agricultural College
suggested that she write an article for "Capper's Weekly" similar to
her "A Farm Woman Speaks out."
15 March 1929. Mr. Raker spoke on KOIN about birds and told of her
telegram about swallows to the "Oregonian." KOIN is a radio station
in the Portland area.
26 March 1929. Mr. Raker went to Carlton High School to speak about birds.
She received reprints of her "A Farm Woman Speaks Out."
31 March 1929. On this Easter Sunday, Mr. Eliot and Mr. Leo Simon visited,
and they all went out birding.
10 April 1929. She spoke at a Kiwanis luncheon in McMinnville; a clipping
of a newspaper mentioning this is included.
16 April 1929. They drove to Portland to the funeral of P. S. Hansen.
30 April 1929. She sent 25 reprints to County [Extension?] Agents and
magazine editors.
Spring arrivals (except for May and June) for 1929 are in the last few
pages of this notebook.
Vol. 23: 1 May 1929-25 Jan. 1930
Spring arrivals for 1929 are in the first few pages of this notebook.
13 May 1929. On KOIN, Mr. Raker told of a May 11 bird field trip to the
French's farm by the Portland Audubon Society.
24 May 1929. She received a clipping of her biography from Mr. Brodie, who
is the editor of Who's Who in Oregon.
16 June 1929. Her article about jays appeared in the Sunday "Oregonian" on
the editorial page; a comment on her "A Farm Woman Speaks Out" also
appeared. [Note that she did not mention writing an article about
jays, so not all articles that she wrote may be listed in her
notebooks.]
17 June 1929. She went to Portland to attend a luncheon for Mrs. Sipple.
She also saw B.H.L. and ?.D.W.
21 July 1929. Mr. Eliot and Mr. Gilbert came, and they all went on a boat
ride.
25 Aug. 1929. She went on a trip to Tillamook County and took a few bird
notes.
26 Aug. 1929. She visited Lincoln County and took some bird notes.
26 Sept. 1929. She went to the State Fair and saw an exhibit of game
birds.
11 Oct. 1929. Her article about crows appeared in the "Oregonian."
5 Jan. 1930. Mr. Raker and Mary Raker visit; Mr. Raker will give talks for
Grace at Lafayette and Newberg because Grace has a bad cold.
6 Jan. 1930. Mr. Raker announced on KOIN that he would speak for her at
the Civic Clubs at Lafayette and Newberg.
7 Jan. 1930. Mr. Raker gave his talk for her and stayed overnight at her
place.
14 Jan. 1930. She wrote a story about quail and bluebirds for "Wild Life
Lines" in the "Oregonian." She mailed it to them on Jan. 16.
Vol. 24: 26 Jan.-31 Aug. 1930
Spring arrivals are listed in the first few pages of this notebook.
26 Jan. 1930. Mr. and Mrs. Nissen and Kenneth visited. Grace writes: "I
wonder why the Oregonian did not print my story about the mixed covey
of quail."
7 Feb. 1930. Her story is printed in "Wild Life Lines" in the "Oregonian."
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20 Feb. 1930. She saw a large flock of Tree Swallows over Carlton Lake;
she thinks this is very early, and she telephones the news editor of
the "Oregonian."
22 Feb. 1930. She has pasted in a newspaper clipping "Tree Swallows
Return"; it is probably from the Feb. 22 "Oregonian." They
mistakenly cite her as Ruth and not Grace. The article also says that
her article "A Farm Woman Speaks" has received national recognition.
23 Feb. 1930. Mr. Eliot and Mr. Crowell came out to see the swallows; they
were not around, but just after they left a large flock appeared.
17 March 1930. Mr. Raker