20 EGGS AND EGG-COLLECTING. 
much, as the beautiful colouring of many eggs is 
easily displaced. When the egg has been blown, and 
properly dried inside and out, an operation needing some 
care, the hole should be covered over with a neat piece of 
gummed paper, on which the name of the specimen may be 
written, this being found especially useful when eggs of 
different kinds get mixed. 
A small label should also be attached to the compart- 
ment allotted to each egg in the cabinet, bearing the 
name, locality in which it was found, and date, as such 
memoranda are often very useful, and inculcate habits 
of systematic study and storage of information sometimes 
impossible to remember. Besides this, a very good plan is 
to keep a note-book in which to enter such particulars and 
data concerning each specimen as may prove of utility or 
interest in the study of oology. 
Of course it is impossible to obtain many specimens, 
which are seldom or never found in certain districts, there- 
fore it is necessary to buy such eggs, or exchange through 
the medium of advertisement, with collectors equally glad 
to avail themselves of such an arrangement. 
I have no doubt about the pleasure a study of the 
subject affords, and if my little book assists to heighten it 
in any way I shall be satisfied. 
R. KEARTON. 
