INDEX. 



Carpocapsa, 306 



Cases of ornamental taxidermy, 320-22-1 



Casts, 21, 25 



making moulds and, 259-270 



of mammals in the tiesh, 268 



of fishes and reptiles, 209-270 



painting plaster, 257 

 Cassowary, 61 

 Cat a difficult subject, 127 

 Chimpanzee, 43-44 

 Chloroform, use of, 322, 336 

 Chelonia, collecting, 08-70 



mounting, 206-2U7 

 Chloride of lime, 88, 89 

 Clay, Colonel Cecil, moose collected and 



presented by, 248 



Clay as a filling material, 112-113. 119, 124, 

 167, 207, 211 



preparation of, for use, 113, 1-18 

 Cleaning feathers, 65 



skins of mammals, 102-104 

 Clothim; and food, 4 

 Collecting, best seasons for, 16 



-boxes for insects, 323-324 



by amateurs, 17 



eggs of insects, 309-311 



fishes, 71-19 



insects, 320-327 



jar for insects, 321 



large mammal skins, 37-45 



marine invertebrates, 80-89 



nests ami eggs, 90-97 



reptiles, 60-70 



small birds, 46-57 



small mammal skins, 24-36 



shells, 85-89 



specimens for groups, 237, 243-'. ) 44 

 Collectors, character of ideal, 3, 40 



firearms for, 9, 12 



golden rule for, 20 



need of skilful, 1-3 



outfits for, 8M5 

 Colors, how to handle, 253-255 



kinds of, 252 



list of, 23 



necessity of recording, 22, 25, 43, 48, 71- 



72 



Coloring soft parts, 113-114, 253-255 

 Combs, furrier's steel, 36 

 " Coming to the Point," 221-222 

 Composition for use in modeling, 347 



for snow scenes, 347 

 Corals, collecting and cleaning, 81-83 

 Corn meal as an absorbent, 59, 64, 198 

 Cornell University insect-house, 318 

 Corrosive sublimate solution, 151, 341, 345 

 Cotton, use of, in making bird skins, 52-54 

 Crabs, cleaning and mounting, 217-218 

 Cranes, 65 

 Crocodiles, collecting, 66-68 



mounting, 204-20(1 



skeletons of, 293-294 

 Crustaceans, cleaning and mounting, 217- 



218 

 Cyanide of potash, 321, 323 



DEAD game panels, 224 

 Deriwstes lardarius, 64, 336, 339 



maculatus, 340 



Designing groups, 237, 243. 244-245 

 Ducks and their treatment, 04 



EAR, treatment of the, 45, 125, 160-162, 167 

 Echini, collecting and preserving, 84 

 Eggs, blowing, 95 



collecting and preserving, 94-97 



removing embryos from, 96 

 Eggs of insects, 309-311 



how deposited, 309-310 



how devitalized, 310 



how preserved, 310-311 

 Elephant, prize won by, 141 

 Elephants, firearms for hunting, 12 



preserving skin of, 41 

 Embryos, removal of, 95, 96 

 Emu, '61 



Enamel varn'sh, Hendley's, 346 

 Entomological supplies, 337 

 Entomology, economic, 306 

 Envelopes for insects, 328 

 Excelsior, use of, 147, 148 

 Expression, 169, 171-172 

 Extermination, animals threatened with, 1 

 Eye, treatment of the, 44, 124, 160. 169, 172, 



188. 196, 212 

 Eyes, cleaning glass, 177 



FEATHERS, cleaning, 65, 198-201 



distribution of, on bird's body, 182 

 Felidsj as taxidermic subjects, 171 

 Filling for dry skins, 33, 52, 60, 166 



for necks, 1 66 



skins of mammals, 129, 130, 132, 138 



small mammals, 122-128 

 Fin shing a small mammal. 123-127 



large mounted mammals, 150-155 

 Firearms, 9, 12 

 Fire-screens, feather, 225 

 Fish medallions, 213 



Fishes, cartilaginous, treatment of, 77-78, 

 214-216 



field notes on, 71 



museum collections of, 208-209 



mounting, 208-216 



painting casts of, 257 



painting mounted, 256 



preserving entire, 73-75 



skeletons of, 78, 294 



skinning, 76-77 

 Flamingoes, group of, 232-233 

 Florida, collecting in, 80-87 

 Foot, treatment of the, 44, 192, 194 

 Fossil skeletons, 280 

 Fraine, Thomas W., 219 



tire-screens by, 225 

 Frogs, grotesque groups of, 227 

 Furniture of taxidermic laboratory, 100 

 Furs and peltries, treatment of, 349 



<}AME panels, 224 



Garman, Samuel, quotation from, 203 



