APPENDIX 



MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



As the author's absence on a collecting tour during the printing of 

 this volume rendered revision of proof-sheets impracticable, some 

 notes since received from him are appended. A few self-correcting 

 typographical errors, notably in punctuation, are passed over. 



The comparatively few technical terms used in the treatise for the 

 parts and organs of birds are defined and explained in the "Key to 

 North American Birds," obviating the necessity of a separate glossary. 

 Familiarity with the "Topography" of birds will facilitate taxidermy; 

 the subject is treated at length in the work just mentioned. (F. W. P.) 



Page 7. Further experience changes ray former preference for metal 

 instead of paper cartridges for breech-loaders. The latter may of 

 course be loaded according to circumstances with the same facility, 

 and even reloaded if desired. It is a good deal of trouble to take 

 care of the metal shells, to prevent loss, keep them clean, and avoid 

 bending or indenting; while there is often a practical difficulty in re- 

 capping at least with the common styles that take a special primer. 

 Those fitted with a screw top holding a nipple for ordinary caps are 

 expensive. Paper cartridges come already capped, so that this bother 

 is avoided, as it is not ordinarily worth while to reload them. They 

 are made of different colors, distinguishing various sizes of shot used 

 MAXUAL. 8 (113) 



