LIST OF PLATES. 



Frontispiece. DispLiy (h-oup in tlic- Author's Museum. From a photograph by Baker. 



PLATE. 



I. Instruments. Eight Jiyures. 



II. Instruments. Nine ficfures. 



in. Instruments. Seven Jiyures. 



IV. Instruments. Nine figures. 



V. Instruments. TJiree figures. 



VI. Artificial Eyes for Animals. Thirty-mx figures. 



VII. Topography of a Bird. 



VIII. Feathered Tracts and Unfeathered Spaces in Birds. Two figures. 



IX. Skeleton of an Eagle. 



X. Skinning of a Bird. Nine figures. 



XI. Returning the Skin over the Skull. 



XII. Adjusting Feathers of the Head. 



XI II. Mounting a Bird. Fourteen figures. 



XIV. AViring and Poisoning tlie Tarsus. 



XV. Finishing a Mounted Bird. Philosophy of "Walking Attitudes. Five figures. 



XVI. Winding the Plumage of Birds. Three figures. 



XVII. Removing Owls' Eyes. Taking out Tendons in Birds' Legs. Breast-cut Method 

 of Skinning Birds. Eight figures. 



XVIII. Breast-cut Method of Mounting Birds. Group of Robins. Seven figures. 



XIX. Variations and Exceptions in Skinning Birds. Seven figures. 



XX. Legs, Wings, Muscular System and Artificial Structure in Raptores. Four 

 figures. 



XXI. Mounting Birds with Spread Wings. Five figures. 



XXII. New Method of Mounting Long-necked Birds. Five figures. 



XXIII. Mounting Colossal Birds. Framework of the Ostrich. 



XXIV. Mending Broken Bones of Birds. Nine figures. 

 XXV. Drying Forms for Birds. Three figures. 



XXVI. Wrapping Skins for the Cabinet. Two figures. 

 XXVII. Models for Bird Skins. Seven figures. 

 XXVIII. Ascertaining the Sexes of Birds. Two figures. 

 XXIX. Forms and Attitudes. Cormorants, Horned Grebe, Sooty Albatross, American 

 White-fronted Goose, Northern Phalarope. Six figures. 

 XXX. Forms and Attitudes. Black Tern, Caspian Tern, American Herring Gull, 

 Black Skimmer. Four figures. 



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