METHODS HERETOFORE IN USE. 55 



taken, adding always a reference to the Journal or 

 Note-book of the collector, wherein /i^Z/er details may 

 be given. 



SUGGESTIONS FROM NEWTON AND OTHERS. 



It being advisable to pursue some - i*egular system 

 in marking, the following method has been suggested 

 l)y Professor Alfred Newton of Magdalen College, 

 Cambridge, — at present, no doubt, the chief of 

 British ornithologists, — as one found to work well 

 in practice ; 



The scientific names onlij are to be used, in all 

 cases where the specimens have really been satis- 

 factorily identified. If this was accomplished by 

 obtaining one or both of the parent birds, a hiemo- 

 randum of the fact is to be added, thus: "Both 

 birds snared;" "Bird shot;" or, in smaller space, 

 " Bd. St. " If the identification has been eflected 

 only by a good vicAv of the birds, the fact should 

 be stated thus: "Bird well seen," "Bird seen," or 

 "Bd. sn." For eggs not taken hy the collector 

 himself, but brought in by persons not having a sci- 

 entific knowledge of ornithology, the local name or 

 the name applied by the finder should only be used, 

 unless indeed it requires interpretation, when the 

 scientific name may be added, but alwaj^s within 



