Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!
Herps! Herps! Herps! (Reptiles and Amphibians)
Mammals! Mammals! Mammals!
Add North America Butterfly, Dragonfly, Mammal, and Herp data
sets to your copy of AviSys Version 4.0 or later.
- Print these instructions. (Note:
this is easier than it looks right now!)
- Back up your AviSys data sets. (Utils/Back
Up Data)
- In AviSys, create up to three new data sets (File/Add
Data Set). Name them something like BUTTRFLY, HERPS, MAMMALS,
and/or DRAGONS. (8 character limit, A..Z only)
- Close AviSys (File/Exit) -- don't just minimize it!
- Download the special master checklists, using the links
below. Pay close attention to where your browser places the files
and if it renames them --- if you can control it, have the files
stored in the appropriate AviSys data set folders you just created,
named properly.
- If you are using Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP, start Windows
Explorer and perform the following:
1. Select View.
2. In the resulting menu, click Details.
3. Select View.
4. If it is present and checked, we recommend you click ...as
Web Page to UNcheck it.
5. Select View -- or Tools (in Win ME, 2000 and XP).
6. In the resulting menu, select Folder Options (or just
Options).
7. In the resulting dialog, click the View tab.
8. If the resulting page has an Advanced Settings list
box, perform the following:
UNcheck Hide file Extensions for known file types.
Check Display the full path in title bar.
9. If item 8, above, did not apply to your system, you have a
section titled Hidden Files. Below that section:
UNcheck Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types that are
registered.
Check Display full MS-DOS path in the title bar.
- If they aren't already in the correct folders, using Explorer or File Manager, copy MASTER.BTR to your butterfly data set directory (folder) and/or MASTER.DRG to your dragonfly data set directory (folder) and/or MASTER.HRP to your herps data set directory (folder), and/or MASTER.MML to your mammals data set directory (folder). ( Data set directory (folder) example: C:\AVI6\BUTTRFLY)
- Being VERY CAREFUL, in each
of the new directories (folders), rename MASTER.AVI to MASTER.XXX.
Then rename MASTER.BTR or MASTER.DRG or MASTER.MML or MASTER.HRP,
as appropriate, to MASTER.AVI.
- Restart AviSys.
- When you first invoke (open) each of the new data sets,
you will be asked to allow AviSys to create new sighting files
-- do so. You will also be asked if you want the Places Tables,
etc., cleared. If you want to replicate the Places scheme from
your birding data set, answer no. Otherwise, let AviSys clear
the tables.
- After you are certain everything is OK, you can carefully erase MASTER.XXX in the new
data sets.
- Some AviSys functions don't operate with these new master
checklists, namely the Jump Tables and the Hot Keys. But since
these are very small checklists, it's not a big problem. Find
and Next work great.
- Every species is marked in the Alaska and Alabama state
checklists. These states were selected arbitrarily, and are there
simply to place each species in the N.A. checklist. The list
is the same whether you are in World or N.A. mode. There are
no published comprehensive state checklists for these critters.
This is a free optional addition to AviSys. If you feel you
need help with this, please do not use our 800 number for support.
Use EMail <support@avisys.net> or (505)-867-6255. We much prefer EMail support.
Click the Links Below To Download the Critter Files (see copyright
information below):
(Note: you may have to right-click
and select "Save target as . . ." or, if you are using
Netscape Navigator -- hold
down the Shift key when clicking the link:)
If your browser insists on renaming the files, rename
them on your hard drive, using Explorer or File Manager, to MASTER.BTR,
MASTER.HRP, MASTER.MML, MASTER.EUB or MASTER.DRG.
Copyrights, Acknowledgements, and Information:
Special thanks to Stu Tingley and Jim Bangma for transcribing
the Butterfly and Dragonfly checklists into text files which we
were able to parse and convert into AviSys files.
The butterfly list is provided courtesy of the North American
Butterfly Association (NABA). The list is Copyright © NABA,
all rights reserved, is for your personal use only in AviSys,
and is not to be copied or otherwise transmitted to others.
NABA, a non-profit organization, was formed to educate the
public about the joys of non-consumptive recreational butterflying,
including listing, gardening, observation, photography, rearing
and conservation. Membership in NABA is open to all those who
share its purposes. Membership includes a subscription to the
beautiful, quarterly, color illustrated, NABA journal, American Butterflies.
Membership dues for the US are $25; Family $35. Outside the
US please add $5 to cover increased postal costs. Please send
dues and subscriptions, payable in US dollars drawn on a US Bank,
to:
NABA, 4 Delaware Road, Morristown, NJ 07960
. . . and let them know AviSys sent you!
The dragonfly list was published by the Dragonfly Society
of the Americas and is used with the permission of the original
authors Dennis R. Paulson and Sidney W. Dunkle.
The mammal list was assembled from non-copyrighted sources
and converted to an AviSys data set by Harold Stiver. Thanks,
Harold!
The Herps (herpetofauna) list was compiled by Doug Henderson
and Dennis Paulson, October 1992, with some subsequent taxonomic
decisions in literature added thereafter, and published by the
Slater Museum of Natural History, Copyright © University
of Puget Sound. It is used with the permission of the original
compilers.
Scientific and common names from J. T. Collins, Standard
common and current scientific names for North American amphibians
and reptiles, Third Edition, Soc. Study Amph. & Rept. Herp.
Circular No. 19, 1990. Order of families from J. L. Behler and
F. W. King, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American
Reptiles and Amphibians, Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Modified by the
original compilers.
The taxonomy will differ from that of many other sources,
and from some editions of the cited sources.
Because of the unique classification of birds, primarily the
order Passeriformes covering over 50% of the birds of the
world, AviSys separates bird species into "families"
only, some of which were created for clarity and functional usefulness.
Also, some functions of AviSys utilize, and depend on, that structure.
Thus, in the Herps list, the class divisions (Amphibians and
Reptiles), and the order and suborder divisions (Salamanders,
Frogs and Toads, Turtles, Crocodiles, Squamata, Worm Lizards,
Lizards, Snakes) are not used. The scientific family names are
expressed in the form Order (not sub-order) - Family, such as
"Squamata Viperidae" for the Vipers.
Introduced species are marked with a * at the end of the common
name.