VI CONTENTS. 



MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES, OR LEPIDOPTERA .... 58 



DRAGON-FLIES, ETC., OR NEUROPTERA 60 



BEES, WASPS, ETC., OR HYMENOPTERA ..... 61 



FLIES, MOSQUITOES, ETC., OR DIPTERA . ... 61 



CHAPTER IY. 



COLLECTING AND PRESERVING FISHES AND REPTILES. 

 SECT. 



I. FISHES 63 



II. REPTILES 64 



CHAPTER V. 



MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



SECT. 



I. CRUSTACEA 69 



COLLECTING MOLLUSKS 69 



PRESERVING SHELLS 70 



WORMS, ANIMAL PARASITES, JELLY-FISHES ... 71 

 CORALS, SEA-ANEMONES, HYDROIDS AND BRYOZOA, STAR- 

 FISHES, SEA-URCHINS. HOLOTHURIAS, OR SEA-CUCUMBERS, 



SPONGES AND SEA-WEEDS 72 



II. PREPARING SKELETONS 73 



MOUNTING SKELETONS 73 



CHAPTER VI. 



COLLECTING AND PRESERVING EGGS .... .76 

 METHOD OF PREPARING A BOOK FOR RECORDING THE MEASURE- 

 MENTS OF EGGS 78 



PART II. 



CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS . . 81 



INTRODUCTION 



APPENDIX , . . . 161 



INDEX 169 



