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THE beautiful and delicate colours observed on the eggs of birds are not very fast to light, more especially when they belong to the lighter class of colours. Egg-collections should be carefully protected from the light by some covering over the case, when they are not being inspected; otherwise much of their beauty of tint becomes lost in course of time. It is gratifying to notice that in museums and natural history collections this precaution of protecting egg-cases with covers is now almost universally observed.
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PATERSON, D. The Effect of Sunlight on the Tints of Birds' Eggs. Nature 56, 11 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056011a0
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