TABLE OP CONTENTS. 



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Hints on Removing and Preparing Skins op Mammals . 7 



Instructions for t?ie Preservation of Birds .... 22 



How to Determine the Sex of a Bird 32 



Instructions for Collecting Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes 35 



Instructions for Collecting Insects 50 



How TO Collect Diptera (Two-Winged Flies) .... 64 



How TO Collect Mosquitoes 81 



Other Blood-Sucking Arthropoda ^^2 



Instructions for Collecting Spiders, Centipedes (Arachnida, 



Myriopoda), and Peripatus 99 



Methods of Collecting and Preserving Various Invertebrate 



Animals 104 



Hints for Collecting and Preserving Shells of Molluscs . 120 



Directions for Collecting and Preserving Plants . . . 123 



Suggestions as to Collecting and Preserving Fossils . . 133 



Notes on Collecting Minerals J 3!) 



Index 142 



