PLATK NIT. 



ADJUSTING FEATHERS OF THE HEAD 



"When the skin of a bird has been turned right side out the feathers are 

 usually very much disarranged, especially about the head Avhere the skiu has 

 become folded. To adjust the skin over tbe head, Insert the blunt point of a 

 darning needle in the eye-hole and rub it along under the skin above the skull; hy 

 this operation the skin and feathers of the head will fall nicely in their ijluce. 



