Archive image from page 7 of Directions for collecting, preparing, and Directions for collecting, preparing, and preserving birds eggs and nests directionsforcol00bend Year: 1891 BULLETIN 39, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. [*] thoroughly fixed in a fresh-hiul egg. This applies especially to the eggs of many game birds and hawks, as well as to others. The shells of some of the water birds, as the Pelicans, Gauuets, and Cormorants, are covered with a more or less uneven deposit of lime. This should not be scrapeil or scrubbed off. Especial care should be taken to thoroughly clean all white egg
Archive image from page 7 of Directions for collecting, preparing, and Directions for collecting, preparing, and preserving birds eggs and nests directionsforcol00bend Year: 1891 BULLETIN 39, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. [*] thoroughly fixed in a fresh-hiul egg. This applies especially to the eggs of many game birds and hawks, as well as to others. The shells of some of the water birds, as the Pelicans, Gauuets, and Cormorants, are covered with a more or less uneven deposit of lime. This should not be scrapeil or scrubbed off. Especial care should be taken to thoroughly clean all white eggs l)oth inside and outside, particularly those of Woodpeckers. Eggs should be blown or emptied through a single small hole neatly drilled on one side, as shown in the figure on page <S. It is well to com- mence making this hole with a needlie and finishing it with an egg dr/ll, which is given a rotary motion between the thumb and forefinger. lu marked or spotted eggs the poorest or least marked side should always be selected fortius purpose. (Ireatcare should betaken to remove the entire contents. A simple blowpipe and a few different sized drills, like those figured below, which may be obtained at any natural-history dealer's establish- ment, are all the implements required to blow an egg. Drills. Blowpipp. Embiyo hook. Curved pointed scissors.
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