. Handbook of birds of eastern North America [microform] : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits with introductory chapters on the study of ornithology, how to identify birds and howto collect and preserve birds, their nests, and eggs. Birds; Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Ornithologie. 30 COLLECTING NESTS AND EGGS. tti 1:1 eggs of our birds alone and undisturbed. They have too many ene- mies to contend with, without adding th
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America [microform] : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits with introductory chapters on the study of ornithology, how to identify birds and howto collect and preserve birds, their nests, and eggs. Birds; Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Ornithologie. 30 COLLECTING NESTS AND EGGS. tti 1:1 eggs of our birds alone and undisturbed. They have too many ene- mies to contend with, without adding the average egg collector to the number. The mere accumulation of specimens is the least important object of the true oOlogist. His principal aim should be to make care- ful observations on the habits, call notes, song, the character of the food, mode and length of incubation, and the actions of the species generally, from the beginning of the mating season to the time the young are able to leave the nest. This period comprises the most in- teresting and instructive part of the life-history of our ; Very heartily do 1 indorse every word of this, and to the concluding sen- tence I would add: and there can be no better way to avoid increasing our knowledge of a bird's domestic life than to rob it of its eggs, and destroy its home and our own opportunities at the same time. Studied from a local standpoint, I confess I can see only two points of interest in a bird's aggâone is what the egg is in, the other is what is in the â I â¢. Nevertheless, I can understand the pleasure attending the Icgiti- "mate formation of what Captain Bendire calls " a small, thoroughly identified, well-prepared, and neatly cared for collection," which, as the same author adds, " is worth far more scientifically and in every other way than a more extensive one gained by exchange or ; Ah egg-collector's outfit consists of several drills, an embryo-hook, a blow
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