AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING BIRDS AND PREPARING
AND PRESERVING SKINS, ALSO DIRECTIONS HOW

TO FORM A COLLECTION OF EGGS

BY THOMAS MCILWRAITH

MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

SECOND EDITION-ENLARGED AND REVISED TO DATE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

Toronto

WILLIAM BRIGGS, WESLEY BUILDINGS

MONTREAL: C. W. COATES HALIFAX: S. F. HUESTIS

MDCCCXCIV

Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and ninety-four, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa,

то

HER EXCELLENCY

The Countess of Aberdeen

IN VIEW OF THE

INTELLIGENT ATTENTION SHE HAS GIVEN TO

SCIENCE AND LITERATURE IN CANADA

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED