CONTENTS 



PART I. 

 CHAPTER I. 



COLLECTING AND PRESERVING BIRDS. 

 Sect. Page 



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 



Tap.le 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 



Method of Preparing a Book for Measuring Mammals 47 



Tap.le 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 



