CONTENTS XV 



CHAPTEE II 



Arrival at Antigua — Dominica — Frogs and Humming-birds — 

 Martinico — Diamond rock — Barbadoes — Quashi and Venus 

 — The Alien Bill — Sail for Demerara — More about the 

 Sloth — Scarlet Grosbeak — Crab-eating Owl — Sun-heron — 

 Feet of the Tinamou — Vampires again — The Karabimiti 

 Humming-bird — The Monkey tribe — The Eed Howler — 

 Eoast monkey — The Nondescript — Altered physiognomy — 

 Gold and silver mines — Changes of Government — Politics 

 — India-rubber — An ingenious deception 286-314 



ON PEESEEVING BIEDS FOE CABINETS OF NATUEAL 

 HISTOEY 



Faults in bird-stuffing — Tools required — Knowledge of anat- 

 omy — Attitudes of birds — Flow of the plumage — How to 

 skin a bird — Inserting cotton — Killing wounded birds — 

 — Stuffing a hawk — The first incision — The skin to be 

 pushed, not pulled — Arrangement of wings — Modeling the 

 body — Spreading the tail — Constant attention required — ■ 

 Strength and elasticity — Value of corrosive sublimate — 

 Experience and patience 315-332 



Index 333 



