io BIRD-PRESERVING. 



it carefully and lightly round the body, which will 

 keep the leathers iu their places, and this thread should 

 be kept on for a fortnight or three weeks, until the 

 bird is dry. The tail should be kept iu its place also 

 for the same time, by a piece of thin wire bent over it 

 thus : 



The only thing now to do is to put in the eyes. 

 The colour of course depends on the bird, and these 

 you may buy at any fishing-tackle shop. If you do 

 not use eyes too large, you will find little difficulty ; 

 the juice of the lids will act as a sufficient cement. As 

 to the mounting, I shall say nothing about that now, 

 but shall only advert shortly to a Prench method of 

 preserving, which is more difficult, but has the advan- 

 tage of superior firmness. It is this : Measuring from 

 the insertion of the neck to the tail, make a wire frame 

 of this form, the measure taken being from A to B. 



Upon this wind hemp for the neck only, and place in 

 the skin in the same way as before directed, only that 

 instead of one wire being passed through that in which 

 the tail grows, it is a fork that is passed through it. 

 Having formed this frame, fit on to it two legs thus : 

 and after the frame itself is in the skin, pass these 

 from the inside down each leg, instead" of from the 

 outside, and fasten them on to the frame with the 

 plyers by twisting the ends, B 13, round the frame, c, 

 in the first figure. This will make all firm, and you 



