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tion was very materially modified, by numerous 

 alterations and corrections, involving not only the 

 change of a considerable number of names, but also 

 the writing of a new introduction, etc. This list 

 will now remain as the standard for labelling in the 

 National Museum, and will be sent to all applicants 

 by the Smithsonian Institution, in place of the obso- 

 lete Check List of 1859. I recommend its universal 

 adoption in labelling and in exchanging eggs, because 

 it is the standard, because it is the latest and most 

 complete list, and for the sake of uniformity, a con- 

 sideration of great importance.] 



Let me return now to the proposed form of record, 

 the second paragraph of which will read : 



The second number with its annexed letter, al- 

 ways 171 brackets [J, refers to the page of this 

 Ledger, and paragraph a, b or c, etc., therein, ivhere 

 the full history of the specimen may be found. 



At the head of the next page of the Ledger you 

 can put the names — common and scientific — of the 

 first bird whose eggs you collect, preceded by the 

 Check List number, devoting the page, or half of it, 

 to the record of that bird's representatives in your 

 cabinet. The history of the first nest of eggs, 

 then, will appear (page 2) in somewhat such a shape 

 as the following, — supposing it was a summer yel- 

 lowbird's : 



