Without it I should have been collecting entirely in the dark, whereas with its aid I could generally find out what the birds were.

My first knowledge of Latin was obtained by learning the scientific names of the birds and mammals which I collected and classified by the aid of such books as this one.
The birds I obtained up the Nile and in Palestine represented merely the usual boy's collection.

Some years afterward I gave them, together with the other ornithological specimens I had gathered, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and I think some of them also to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

I am told that the skins are to be found yet in both places and in other public collections.

I doubt whether they have my original labels on them.