Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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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