INDEX. 



361 



Penguin, 63 



Photographing animals, 21 

 Pinning insects, ^30-332 

 Plaster Paris as an absorbent. 50-64, 65, 

 198-301 



casts, 21, '-V> 



tablets for reptiles, 202-204 



use of, 163-164, ins-jdi, 220 

 Plumage, cleaning soiled, 198-201 

 Poison, effects of, on taxidermist, 344 

 Poisoning furs and rugs, 344 



-jar for insects, 321 



mounted specimens and collections, 341 



skins and mammals, 32, 110, 148, 151 



textiles and skin clothing, 343 



wild animals, 18 

 Polishing hardwood, 343 

 Principles of bird-mounting, 183-190 



of group-making, 57-240, 249-251 



of mammal-mounting, 109-114 

 Proportions of animals, 112 

 Pulp, paper, 152 

 Python, ::02 



RABBITS, mounting, 1'27 

 Rat?, necessity of guarding against, 33 

 Ray, author vanquished by a villainous, 215 

 Ravs, treatment of, 77-78, 214-216 

 Relaxing skins of mammals, 102-104 

 Reptiles, casts of, by Joseph Palmer, 270 



collecting, 06-70 



groups of, 250 



mounting. 202-207 



new method for alcoholic, 202-203 

 Wnnobnti, 210 



Ribs, attachment of, 298-299 

 Richardson, Jennets, groups of birds by, 

 2:50, 249, 250 



preservation of evergreens by, 221 

 Rooks, artificial, 228-229 

 Rugs, 227 



SALOMETER, use of the, 30, 31 



Salt, use of, 30, 33, 162 



Salt-and-alum bath, oO, 31, 102, 115, 127 



Saurians, 00-08 



Saw-fish, 214-215 



Scapula, attachment of, 302 



Screens, feather fire-, 225 



Sea-eggs, 84 



-porcupines and -urchins, 84 

 Serpents, 06, 202, 293 

 Setting-boards for insects, 330 

 Setting-needle, 332 

 Sewing skins, hints on, 106 

 Sex in birds, determination of, 56 

 Sharks, 77 



difficulties in preserving, 214, 215 

 Shells, cleaning, 87-89 



fresh-water, 83 



land, 85 



"living "and "dead," 85 



marine, 8'! 



Shooting, hints on, 13, 14 

 Shot-gun, use of the, 14, 15 



Shields for trophy heads, 170 



Shrinkage in mounted specimens, 150, 21-3 



Skeletons, bleaching, 28o 



collecting, 271-279 



cleaning by macerating, 282-28^ 



fish, 78, 294, 295 



field-work on small mammal, 273-275 



fossil, 280 



mounting large disarticulated, 296-303 



mounting small, 28b, 295 



packing, :J79 



repairing damaged, 272 

 1 "rough," 271 



selection of, 271 



snake, (if 5 



tools for mounting, 303 



various methods of cleaning, 282 285, 



287 

 Skeletonizing birds, 276-278 



cetaceans, 279 



fishes, 78 



mammals, 273-279 



reptiles, 278 



Sketching from nature, 3, 4, 21, 22, 71 

 Skin, superfluous folds of, 134, 149, 167 

 Skins, cleaning bird-, 181, 182 



cloth lining for old, 182 



making alcoholic fish, 70-78 



making alligator and crocodile, 66-68 



making dry mammal, 32-36 



making largo bird, 58-65 



making small bird, 47-50 



relaxing bird-. 179-181 



shrinking power of, 214-215 

 Skinning apes and monkeys, 43 



crocodilian s, r>~ 



deer's ear, 161 



fishes. 76 



large birds, 58-65 



large mammals, 39-42 



and preserving mammal heads. 40, 159, 

 1(52 



sharks, etc., 77 



small birds, 47-50 



small mammals, "20-29 



reptiles, 00-70 



turtles, 09 

 Skulls, how to dispose of small, 34 



value of, 32 

 Snakes, (Hi 

 Snow, artificial. 220 

 Society of American Taxidermists, 141, 



10:;, I 1 .";, .'-.".' 

 Space in groups, 238 

 Specimens, half-spoiled, '11 



selection of. '.Mi 

 XjifiKri/tx i-oriiifi'it, author's struggle with, 



206 



S/ilii nisi-1, treatment of, 62 

 Spirits, use of, .sw Alcohol 

 Sponges, collecting and cleaning, 81-82 

 S(|iiirrels, groups of, 242, '24:; 

 Star-fishes, collecting and preparing, 83 

 StiM.rn, use of, 200 

 " Steele's Popular Zoology," 47, 351 



