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in love with their work and possessing talents fully capable of improve- 

 ment and desirous of seizing upon each and every advance made in 

 the art. To this end, whenever proper opportunity offers, facilities to 

 in form themselves in all that directly relates to their work should be 

 extended to them. 



In closing. I but acquit myself of a duty and a pleasure at once 

 when I extend my thanks to Prof. G. Brown Goode, long in charge 

 of the National Museum, not only for the advantages that have come 

 to me in the way of studying the material for this paper but for the 

 pleasure it has been for me to write it, and for the many courtesies I 

 have received at his hands. 



To Mr. F. W. True I am especially indebted for the assistance he lias 

 so freely given me upon every occasion. As the curator -in -charge of 

 the Museum, it has lain within his power to further my labors in numer- 

 ous ways, and this throughout has been done with such marked kind- 

 ness, promptitude, and cheerfulness that I find it difficult for me to ex- 

 press to him the gratitude I experience for it and so thoroughly feel. 



My own work will have been amply repaid if it result in the further 

 encouragement and stimulation of the progress of the art of taxidermy, 

 now so firmly placed on foot in so many quarters of the civilized world. 



APPENDIX. 



After the manuscript of this paper had been completed, and had 

 been transmitted to the Museum for publication, there were received 

 for incorporation in it, through the kindness of Dr. J. A. Allen, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York City, five photo- 

 graphs for plates. These photographs represent groups in the collec- 

 tions of the American Museum of Natural History, in which institu- 

 tion Dr. Allen has charge of the departments of ornithology and mam- 

 malogy. They came too late to be inserted in the body of this paper, 

 but owing to their general excellence and interest, and to the great 

 courtesy of their sender in submitting them, as well as to the trouble 

 which he had taken to write out their histories, it Mas decided to have 

 them engraved and placed together at the end of the paper. The first 

 of these added plates (Plate xcn) represents a group of Pied Ducks 

 (Camptolaimus labradorim) which were designed and prepared by 

 Jenness Richardson in 1889 at the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. The birds were mounted by Mr. H. C. Denslow. 



The group which is represented in the second plate of this series 

 (Plate xciii) is a more or less elaborate piece of work, also designed and 

 prepared by Mr. Richardson at the American Museum of Natural I lis. 

 tory in 1886. It represents very faithfully the side elevation of a bank, 

 part way down in which a pair of Louisiana water thrushes [Siurm 



