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is substituted for the central wire we have be- 

 fore described, we pierce two holes in it, the one 

 two, the other three inches, from the end, both 

 a little higher than the first-mentioned hole on 

 the broad surface of the plank. We make two 

 similar holes at the other end to receive the wires 

 of the hind legs. 



As the bear always walks on the sole of his 

 foot, we bring out the wire of the legs at the 

 claws. When the leg is stuffed, we bend the 

 wire in a right angle, at five inches from the in- 

 ner end, which we put into one of the holes of 

 the plank ; the part which passes out at the other 

 side we curve afresh ; we pierce two small gim- 

 blet holes close together, which receive a much 

 smaller wire, and the ends, which being twisted 

 together, encloses the t\vo ends of the large wire 

 and binds them against the plank. We do the 

 same with each of the other legs, and finish the 

 whole in the same way as we do the smaller ani- 

 mals. This method has appeared to me to be the 

 least difficult, and it is that which we practise in the 

 Museum for animals of the second size, as the 

 lion, the royal tiger, the tapir, the deer, &c. 



Plares. 



When we wish to mount a hare, seated, or up- 

 right, an attitude which it sometimes assumes, 



