28 SOME REMARKS ON THE COLLECTION. 



excellent mounting for the little sea birds introduced ; 

 this same remark applies to the case containing the 

 Swallow, House and Sand Martin, etc. I will 

 make one more allusion to the cases for the Spotted 

 and Pied Fly Catchers and Grey Wagtails. These 

 have been copied as nearly as possible from the 

 actual position. 



In my concluding remarks on this collection, I 

 think it only fair to mention the names of those 

 taxidermists who have had the principal share in it. 

 To Mr. Cecil Bisshopp, of Oban, belongs the credit of 

 all the earlier part. Many of his cases have back 

 scene paintings by a clever artist, which are made to 

 accord with the mountings in the foreground, thus 

 very materially enhancing theirgeneral artistic appear- 

 ance. To select some of these, I take the Sheld- 

 Duck, Merganser, Pintail, Brent Goose, Kittiwake, 

 Common Cormorant, Razor Bill, Puffin, Woodcock, 

 Kestrel Hawk, Heron, Black Throated Diver, and 

 Hooded Crow. 



Mr. Pickin, of Manchester, who has confined him- 

 self principally to small birds, has done some nice 

 work in the way of stuffing. As an illustration of 

 one of his cases, I will mention that of little sea 

 birds on a red sandstone cliff. I have already borne 

 testimony to Mr. Charles Thorpe, of East Croydon, 

 for the very artistic cases he has turned out for me, 

 notably the Tiger. Next to that the Water-Ouzel 

 and Kingfisher cases. It now only remains for me 

 to mention the name of Mr. W. R. Hine, of South- 

 port. In the following cases, viz. : — The Eagle, 



