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should also have repeated washings with oil of turpentine. 

 The back should be round and short. 



THE PORCUPINE. 



In stuffing this animal considerable and varied expression 

 may be given, both from the attitude and disposition of the 

 quills. Great attention is therefore required in giving these a 

 proper set during the process of drying. They will require to 

 be looked at several times during the first and second day after 

 they have been stuffed, and any of them that may have fallen 

 out of the position required, to be adjusted. 



HARES. 



A very pretty attitude for the Hare is to have it seated in 

 its form in an upright position, as if alarmed at the noise of 

 dogs, &c. An oval is formed of wire and attached to the in- 

 terior frame work, after having passed one end of it through 

 the anus, which must be passed through a hole in the board 

 on which the animal is to be fixed. The wires of the hind 

 legs must be forced through the posterior part of them, and 

 also fixed into holes formed for their reception in the board. 



ORDER VIL EDENTATA. 



THE SLOTHS 



Must be mounted in an upright posture, as they are seldom 

 or never to be seen walking horizontally, except in finding 

 their way from one tree to another. The great length of their 

 fur makes it a comparatively easy task to mount them. 



ARMADILLOS 



Are also easily set up, owing to the bands preserving the or- 

 dinary shape of the animal. The French Taxidermists do 

 not use any of the preservative for the skin, but merely dry it. 

 We are, however, of opinion, that they are wrong, as all sorts 



