VI CONTENTS. 



Moths and Buttekplies, or Lepidoptera .... 68 



Dkagon-flies, etc., ok Neueoptera 60 



Bees, Wasps, etc., or Hymenopteka 61 



Flies, Mosquitoes, etc., or Diptera 61 



CHAPTER IV. 



COLLECTING AND PKESERVING FISHES AND REPTILES. 

 Sect. 



I. Fishes 63 



II. Seftiles 61 



CHAPTER V. 



MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



Sect. 



I. Crustacea 69 



Collecting Mollusks . . 69 



Preserving Shells 70 



Worms, Animal Parasites, Jelly-Fishes . 71 

 Corals, Sea-Anemones, Hydkoids and Bryozoa, Star- 

 fishes, Sea-Urchins, Holothurias, or Sea-Cucumbers, 



Sponges and Sea-weeds 72 



II. Preparing Skeletons .... . . 73 



Mounting Skeletons 73 



CHAPTER VI. 



Collecting and Preserving Eggs 76 



Method of Preparing a Book for Eecokding the Measure- 

 ments OF Eggs 78 



PART II. 



Catalogue of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts . . 81 



Introduction .... 83 



Appendix , 1^1 



Index 169 



