566 On the Nesting of Birds in Wiltshire. 



and every such compartment should be marked with a label 

 printed for the purpose. 



But for all these principal rules, as well as for full and detailed 

 instruction in all that appertains to the subject of egg-collecting, 

 I would refer my readers to the short but exhaustive pamphlet by 

 the pen of Professor Alfred Newton, entitled ' Suggestions for 

 forming Collections of Birds' Eggs.' * 



I will also add that egg-drills, blow-pipes, labels, and every ap- 

 paratus required by the field oologist may be procured of any 

 good naturalist, such as Messrs. Cook, Museum Street, Blooms- 

 bury, or Messrs. Doncaster, 36, Strand. 



It is, perhaps, almost unnecessary to add that, of course, the 

 eggs must not be varnished (though I have more than once seen 

 even that enormity committed), for such a process manifestly 

 destroys at once the natural appearance of the egg, and renders 

 it worthless as a specimen. 



Originally printed in 1860, in America, in a circular of the * Smithsonian 

 Institution.' Reprinted in England in the Zoologist for the fame year 

 (pp. 7189-7201). Translated by Dr. Baldamus into German, Journal fur 

 Ornithologie, 1860 (pp. 447-459) ; and by M. Jules Verreaux into French, 

 Revue et Magazin de Zoologie, 1862 (pp. 285-292, 319-331). 



