98 BIKDS'-NESTING. 



respect to them. But this difficulty ought not to be 

 a sufficient excuse for ignorance, and if it could be 

 proved to have been accepted as such in any in- 

 stance, ornithology would be disgraced just so far. 

 If the facts and the specimens of oology are not 

 worth the expense of hard work, personal discom- 

 fort, and even some danger, then the sooner we for- 

 sake our pretensions the better. 



