ANE edaN DIOS 
TO THE 
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 lengthin the work just mentioned. (F. W. P.) 

Page 7. Further experience changes my 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 
MANUAL. 8 (113) 
