MOUNTING BIRDS WITH SPREAD WINGS. 



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the back and carried up under the wings and bent over them, as 

 shown in the accompanying figure. 



Fig. 6.— Eagle properh mounted, showing position of the supporting 

 wires and card-board holding the feathers in their proper place in birds 

 with spread wings. 



The feathers of the wing should be held in their proper place 

 by pinning card-board over them, as represented in the above cut. 

 The tail-feathers of all large birds should be wired by running a 

 piece of small wire through each feather at the flat part of the 

 quill near the body, and should also have card-board pinned to it, 

 and then spread in position. 



When a bird is to be suspended it should have the wings 

 slightly raised ; the wire which it is to be hung upon may be run 

 through the body from the back and clinched on the breast. 



