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through others the nests and eggs of birds which
you do not know I will be glad to have it done
because there are not many which I should
not be able to recognize, and the few which
might remain unknown, though unsatisfactory as
labor thrown away would still do no harm
while valuable and interesting duplicates might
be obtained. In regard to packing nests and
eggs it is very easy to pack the eggs themselves,
if carefully blown so that they may be
transported with safety. You have only carefully
to wrap up each egg seperately in a [illegible] of
cotton and to fill the box sufficiently full to
prevent motion. Nests are more difficult
to pack, nor is it best to try to preserve
many of them. unless they are ^new or interesting from
any peculiarity. The more elaborately made nests
pack very readily, but it is hardly possible to keep
together the more loosely constructed.

The facts you mention in regard to the plotus
wood ibis and black throated loon are interesting
and curious. I shall certainly make a note of
them, and put them on record at the
next meeting of our society. Just now I

through others the nests and eggs of birds which
you do not know I will be glad to have it done
because there are not many which I should
not be able to recognize, and the few which
might remain unknown, though unsatisfactory as
labor thrown away would still do no harm
while valuable and interesting duplicates might
be obtained. In regard to packing nests and
eggs it is very easy to pack the eggs themselves,
if carefully blown so that they may be
transported with safety. You have only carefully
to wrap up each egg seperately in a role[?] of
cotton and to fill[?] the box sufficiently full to
prevent motion. Nests are more difficult
to pack, nor is it best to try to preserve
many of them. unless they are new or interesting from
any peculiarity. The more elaborately made nests
pack very readily, but it is hardly possible to keep
together the more loosely constructed.

The facts you mention in regard to the plotus
wood ibis and black throated loon are interesting
and curious. I shall certainly make a note of
them, and put them on record at the
next meeting of our society. Just now I