INDEX. 



nii: CLASSES ARE PRINTED IN CAPITALS, AND THE ORDERS IN SMALL CAPITALS. 



ACALEPHA, 92 



Adie's Instruments for Natural- 

 ists, 144 

 ALCYONES, 53 

 ALECTORIDES, 54 

 ANISODACTYLI, 52 

 Annealed Iron, receipt for mak- 

 ing. 



Ant Eaters, 

 Antelopes, 



Apes, mode of preserving, 

 Arachnides, 

 Armadillos, 

 Arsenical composition, 



Asterias, 

 Attitudes of Birds, remarks on, 

 - alarm, 



- Eagles and Vultures, 43 



Balistes, 65 



Bars, for supporting the larg- 

 er animals, Hippopotamus, 

 Horse, &c. 17, 99 



Bats, of Stuffing, 16 



where found, 100 



Bears, 16 



Beco3ur's method of stuffing Birds, 37 

 BIMANA, 14 



Bison, 23 



Boards, for fixing Quadrupeds on, 13 

 Bones, how to prepare,, 94- 



colour of, vary in some 



animals, 98 



mode of articulating, 98 



Books of Plates for studying atti- 

 tudes, 113 



Botany, general remarks on 

 Braces for setting Insects, 

 Brain, method of removing, from 



birds' skulls, 

 Brass pliers, 

 Breeding of Insects, 



cages for, Insects, 



134 

 79 



20 

 77 

 87 

 87 

 23 

 133 



Buffalo, 



Bulbous roots, 



Bullock's method of stuffing birds, 36 



Burchell's mode of preserving 



small serpents, 62 



Butterflies and Moths, how to 



kill, 80 

 how to set, 81 



Casks for preserving fish, their 



size, 67 



Cassowary, manner of mounting, 55 

 Caterpillars, 86 



Cathartes papa, 49 



Caution as to not over stuffing 



Quadrupeds, &c. 12 



Centre wire of Birds, 36 



Cement, receipt for, 117 



CETACEA, 24 



Chase, directions for, 100 



precautions for preserving 



animals in, 101 



large animals, how to skin, J02 



CHEIROPTERA, 15 



Chopped cotton, its use, 23 



Coots, how to remedy smallness 

 of neck of, in skinning, 26 



Coleopterous Insects, 



79 



Colour, chaugibility in the skin of 

 certain birds' heads accounted for, 49 



