INDEX 



ACCESSORIES, artificial, 338-339 



natural, 247 



Africa, destruction of game in, 2 

 Agassiz, Professor Louis, 72 

 "Agassiz Tank," for alcoholic specimens, 



72-73 



Albatross, 62 

 Alee*, nialrltix, 2-18 

 Alcohol, preservation of specimens in, 66, 



70, 71-75, 83, 127, 202-204 

 Alcoholometer, 75 

 Aldrich, P. W.,219 

 Alectorides, treatment of, 65 

 Alligators, collecting, 66-68 



mounting, 2, (4-206 



skeletons of, 293-294 

 Alum, use of, 32, 45, 51, 61, 68, 115, 162 

 American Museum of Natural History, 109, 



236. 249 



Ammonia, use of, 322 

 Anatomy, caution against detailed external, 



112 



Antennae, 332 

 Anthrenus, 336, 341 

 Apes, treatment of large, 43-45 

 Apparatus for drying larvae, 315 



for inflating larvae, 314 



for mounting larvae, 315 

 Arsenic, use of, 32, 51, 64, 115, 148, 151, 



344-345 



Arsenic water, 342, 3 IS 

 Arsenical soap, use of, 32, 15, 51, 61, 65, 68, 

 118, 132, 14S, !<;:>. 1(17 



recipe for making, 34(5 

 Artificial branches, 127 



foliage in group-, 238-239 

 Attitudes of animals, 111, 121, 171-172, 192, 

 205 



of skeletons, 288 



BACKGROUNDS, painted, for cases and 



groups, 221-222 



Bailly, Jules K. 1)., grotesque groups by, 227 

 Bath, xef Salt iind-alum bath 

 Batrachians, 2! 12 2 3 

 Bats, mounting, on glass, 127-128 



mounting skeletons of, 291 

 Battle in the Tree-tops, 233, 2:', I 

 Beetles, collecting, in alcohol, 328 



frame for mounting, 330 



Bird, names of external parts of, 47 

 Birds, arrangement of feathers on, 182 



collecting, best season for, 16 



collecting skins of small, 46-57 



determination of sex in, 56 



gro'.ips of, 224, 232, 235, 249-250 



mounting large, 191-197 



mounting small, 183-190 



mounting skeletons of, 287, 292-293 



painting mounted, 256 



relaxing dry skins of, 179-182 



shooting, as a pastime, 18 



skeletonizing, 276-278 



skinning large, 58-65 



wrapping skins of, 53-55 

 Bison, American, extermination of the, 1 



group of, by the author, 234-235, 245, 246 



manikin for, 148 



mounting the skeleton of, 296 



specimens of, collected by author, 234 

 Blood on specimens, 42, 47, 198, 201 

 Body, artificial, for birds, 184, 391-192 

 Bone-scrapers, 2*i> 

 Books of reference on birds, 352 



on fishes, 354 



on general zoology, 351 



on groups of animals, 355 



on insects, 3.'!7 



on invertebrates, 354 



(in mammals, 352 



in "Sportsman's Library," 355 



miscellaneous, 355 

 I'.nxrs for collecting insects, 323, 324, 332 



for exhibiting insects, 335-336 



for relaxing skins, 180 



for tools, 11 



Breeding-cages, 317, 318 

 Breeding larvae, 816-319 

 Brushes for painting specimens, 252 

 BulValo, .'< Bison 

 Butterflies, breeding larvae of, 317 



collecting, 325, 332 



CAGES for breeding larvae, 317, 318 

 Capybara, 1(13 



Carbon bisulphide, use of, 336, 342 

 Carbolic acid, use of, 61, 323 

 crystals prevent mould, 348 

 Carving wooden skulls and leg bones, 104- 

 106 



