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having one or more movable trays to set in the 

 drawers, resting on supports which will raise them a 

 certain distance above each other. But this "is dan- 

 gerous, since they are likely to fall in lifting out 

 and in, and the better way is to have drawers of 

 unequal depths. The smaller drawers at the top 

 need not be more than two inches in inside depth. 

 This will accommodate all the eggs in the list as 

 far down as the crows. After that, let there be an 

 increase of an inch for two or three drawers more, 

 which will bring you to the hawks. The eagles' eggs 

 will require another inch in depth, which need not be 

 added to again for about two drawers, until you 

 come to the cranes, when increase of the depth by 

 another inch will give you room enough for all the 

 rest. This supposes that you do not put nests into 

 the drawers. If you keep these, you must have dif- 

 ferent accommodations, or else separate your nests 

 from the eggs, — at least separate them from one typ- 

 ical series of eggs. The latter plan is pursued by 

 many. 



In placing eggs in the cabinet, you will of course 

 follow a definite classification, — presumably the one 

 set forth in the latest catalogue of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, to which I have already called attention. 

 Any arrangement of eggs according to size, or for 

 "artistic effect," or, in any other way, than in the 



