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7. Pencils for marking the bags, 



8. Parchment to serve as labels for the bags. This may also 

 be cut up into strips, and fastened by strings to such specimens as 

 are not suited for the bags. Leather, kid, buckskin, &c., will also 

 answer as substitutes. 



9. Fishing-line and hooks. 



10. Small seines for catching fishes in small streams. The 

 two ends should be fastened to brails or sticks (hoe-handles answer 

 well), which are taken in the hands of two persons, and the net 

 drawn both up and down stream. Fish* may often be caught by 

 stirring up the gravel or small stones in a stream, and drawing 

 the net rapidly down the current. Bushes or holes along the 

 banks may be inclosed by the nets, and stirred so as to drive out 

 the fishes, which usually lurk in such localities. These nets may 

 be six or eight feet long. 



11. Pocket scoop-net ; and casting-net. 



12. Alcohol. About five gallons to each travelling party. 

 This should be about 95 per cent, in strength, and medicated by 

 the addition of one ounce of tartar emetic to one gallon of alcohol, 

 to prevent persons from drinking it. 



13. Arsenic in pound tin canisters. This may be applied to 

 the moist skins of birds and quadrupeds, either dry or mixed with 

 alcohol. Arsenical soap may also be used. 



14. Alum and saltpetre, finely powdered and intimately mixed 

 in the proportion of two parts of the former, and one of the latter. 

 Ten or fifteen pounds may be taken, to be used in the preparation 

 of large skins. It can best be carried in the tin preserving cans, 

 with screw caps, and applied from a small tin dredging box. 



15. Tartar emetic for medicating the alcohol as above. 



16. Some drachm bottles op strychnine for poisoning carni- 

 vorous animals — wolves, foxes, bears, etc. — and for protecting cer- 

 tain parts of skins from insects. 



lY. Some camphor. 



18. Cotton or tow for stuffing out the heads of birds and 

 mammals. To economize space, but little should be put into the 

 bodies of the animals. The skulls of the quadrupeds, except very 

 small ones, may be removed from the skins, but carefully preserved 

 with a common mark. 



19. Paper for wrapping up the skins of birds and small quad- 

 rupeds, each separately. The paper supplied for botanical pur- 

 poses will answer for this. 



