PLATK XXVII. 



MODELS FOR BIRD SKINS. 



The seven figures in this plate ilhistrate the forms in which the various kinds 

 of bird skins should be made, Figs. 1 and 2, Cardinal Curdinalls cardmalis iLiun.), 

 with heads turned and crests slightly raised ; Fig. 8, Great Blue Heron Ardea 

 herodias (Linn.), showing how the skins of loug-ueeked and long-legged birds 

 should be folded; Fig 4, Hooded Merganser Lophodtitcs cucuUcdiis (Linn.) ; Fig. o, 

 American Avocet IieourviroHtra amcricana Gm.; Fig. (>, Marbled Godwit Limosa 

 fcdoa (Linn.) ; Fig. 7, Northern Fhalarope Phahiropus fobafits (Linn.). All skins 

 should have a label attached to them. It should contain the name of the species, 

 locality where taken, date of capture and sex as seen in Fig. 3. INIeasurements 

 and notes of interest may be recorded on the other side of tag and in a record book, 

 the numbers corresponding with those on the labels of your specimens. Besides 

 your own number (called the collector's number) the label on the skin, if a North 

 American species, should bear the number from the American Ornithologists' 

 Fnion Check-list. 



