BRIEF DIRECTIONS 



Collecting and Preserving 



BIRDS' EGGS AND NESTS. 



If you are desirous of making a collection of eggs of the birds of any 

 locality, the following directions may aid you : 



Remember that an egg has no financial or scientific value if it has no 

 name. Therefore, be zw/y partiadar to identify all eggs collected. If you 

 do not, you will have in many respects a worthless collection. If the eggs 

 in a nest are strange or unknown to you, do not touch them until you have 

 procured the parent bird. If you cannot skin the bird, preserve its head, 

 wings, and feet until you can have them identified. The student of 

 Oology should by all means learn to skin birds and pul* them in proper 

 shape. He will then make few mistakes in his data. 



Empty the contents of an egg through one smoothly drilled hole in the 

 side, and drill it as small as can be got along with. Force the contents out 



