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pipe "is in position it will be at an angle of forty-five 

 degrees. This prevents the water or the contents of the 

 egg from running back and making a muss on the bench. 



•' Whenever I have any eggs to attend to, I take a basin 

 with a little water in it and place the stand beside it, with 

 the post overhanging the edge. Then push a blowpipe 

 through the hole in post and couple it to the tube in bulb 

 with a piece of small, thin rubber tube, perhaps an inch 

 long. I like this arrangement better than sticking the bulb 

 on the end of the blowpipe for two reasons : it is easier, 

 and it does not wiggle the pipe and endanger a fragile egg. 

 It takes about two minutes to set up antl take apart the 

 whole concern. 



Of course such an outfit is not practicable for blowing in 

 the field. I have now two perfect glass blowpipes that I 

 have carried over ten thousand miles in cars and in stage."' 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MIGRATION AND 

 DISTRIBUTION. 



The reports received are of such a varied character that 

 it has been found impossible to present this report in any 

 thing but a general way. Before a systematic report can 

 be made on the migrations it will be necessary to gather in 

 a greater and more carefully prepared mass of notes. It is 

 but fair to say that a large number of the notes used in this 

 report were sent in response to a circular issued, calling for 

 general rather than specific notes. 



In the present report an attempt has been made to trace 

 the distribution of each species east and west, north and 

 south, without burdening the report with a mass of details. 

 We have not sought to accomplish any thing beyond 

 estimating the Fringilline fauna of each locality from 

 which notes have come, and the relative abundance of each 

 species. With the small number of localities represented 

 nothing more than an approximation of the geographical 

 distribution can be presented. In the report which is to 

 follow we hope to have every state east of the plains 



