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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
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he better. There is one other point I would likespace to mention. It is the almostuniversal habit of collectors sendingnests by mail or express, to pack cot-ton either in the nests or around themor both, with nothing between the cot-ton and the nesting material. Many awasted hour have I spent patientlypicking the fuaz of cotton from alichen-covered nest of one species orfrom the bark strips and straw of an-other. The wrapping from an orangeor a bit of newspaper would make thisunnecessary and the nests would ar-rive in as good if not in better shape.F. C. Willard. 1916. Spring is here, hie to the woodsand fields. Report all the good things,the rare finds, and the interesting ob-servations to THE OOLOGIST. An Open Letter. Your promise in the NovemberOOLOGIST to devote an entire num-ber to discussion of methods for thearrangement and preparation of speci-mens was of particular interest to me,and if carried out successfully shouldprove of benefit to collectors in gen-eral. THE OOLOGIST 55
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^ ^ A\. S; n5 ->S ^ ^ r^ ^ U r ^* n; vrj Vl V» J (^^ ^ G>^ O r, (« 56 THE OOLOGIST It seems to me that there is a cry-ing need for more complete data, es-pecially for the rarer sets. Someyears ago I received several large lotsof European eggs, and was quite dis-gusted to find that as a rule the onlydata consisted of the name of the spe-cies, the date, and the locality. Inthe majority no reference was made tosuch obviously important items as thename of the collector, nesting-site,materials of the nest, incubation, etc. Fortunately we are considerably inadvance of this method in America,but even here there is often much tobe desired. Just recently I receiveda set, the data for which made nomention whatsoever of the localitywhere the eggs were taken. Such setsare of course of no value as scientificspecimens. Some collectors merelysign their initials, or in other instan-ces write —collected for—so-and-so.This may be all right where the pa

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