30 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 gome 

 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. 



E. KEARTON. 



