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June 5 Ottawa
all sorts of photos, printed plates,
and original drawings.
The latter
pertain, many of them, to colors
of bill, eye, inside mouth, and
feet; I birds from fresh specimens,
some drawn by Taverner himself
others by a special artist. During
the winter, many birds come to
the Museum in-the-flesh,
frozen, from all over the Dominion.
Taverner's pamphlet file (under
authors, alphabetically) is rather
laborate, each separate, even if
two pages, being contained under
a special card-board cover with
title and author (in left hand
corner) on back, and all
laid on their sides.
The collections here are well-bound
in good cases, for the most part
well labelled, and were largely