PLATE XV. 



FINISHING A MOUNTED BIRD. WAl,KING ATTITUDES. 



Fig 1, robin with lei:s l)eiit in shape ready for perch ; Fig. 2, robin on tem- 

 porary perch with wire iu tail for support ; Fig. 8, robin with thread winding; tail 

 band ; Figs. -4 and o, showing position of femur (Ai which, iu the natural body, can 

 not descrilie more than one-ciuarter of a circle. In stepping or running attitudes 

 the leg, which is to set forward, should be anchorerl in the artificial body about as 

 far up as the femur would reach in the circle (cZand d) ; the leg that is to drop 1 jack- 

 ward should be placed far down in the circle as seen in c of both figures. Where tlie 

 end of the middle toe is to barely touch the ground (Fig. ■")) the wire sliould lie run 

 from the inside of the skin to point of toe, so that no " visible means of support" 

 will be seen when fastened on the stand. .See section. Stepping and Running 

 Attitudes, page 9(). 



