CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



COLLECTING AND PRESERVING BIRDS. 

 Sect. Pagb, 



I. How TO COLLECT 3 



II. How TO PREPARE Specimens. — Instruments, Materials, etc. 10 



III. Measuring, Skinning,, and Preserving Birds . . .18 



Measuring 18 



Skinning 22 



Determining the Sex 27 



Contents of Stomach, etc. 31 



Exceptions to the usual Method of Skinning . 31 



Tahle of Measurements 32 



IV. Mounting Specimens 34 



Mounting fresh Birds 34 



Mounting dried Skins 40 



Mounting Birds with the Wings extended . • .41 



CHAPTER II. 



collecting and preserving MAMMALS'. 

 Sect, 



I. Collecting 43 



II. ]Measuring Mammals 45 



Skinning 46 



IMethod of Preparing a Book for Measuring Mammals 47 



Table of Measurements 47 



III. Mounting Mammals '50 



CHAPTER III. 



collecting and preserving insects for the cabinet. 



Beetles, or Coleoptera 55 



Bugs, or Hemiptera 57 



Grasshoppers, Crickets, etc., or Orthoptera . • • .58 



