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operation is performed by passing the skin over the 

 round surfaces of the demi-cylinders of wood, first 

 paring those parts which are thus projected, and 

 afterwards drawing the others into the same situa- 

 tion. When it is well pared and cleaned, it is put 

 to soak fou r-and- twenty hours in a bath, composed 

 half of soft- water and half of alum- water. It is 

 then taken out to be spread upon the factitious 

 body, and fixed .partly by sewing, and partly by 

 wire nails, as we have before stated for the ele- 

 phant. 



BIRDS. 



AT least four hundred species of indigenous 

 birds may be procured in France. He who can 

 content himself with this collection, will be repaid 

 by an acquaintance with the manners arid habits of 

 the birds of his own country. If his cabinet is 

 less rich than that of another, his knowledge will 

 be more solid : like the Abbe Manesse he will have 

 an opportunity of forming a collection of eggs. 

 This part, so intimately connected with the Natural 

 History of Birds, has been very much neglected, 

 even until the present time, by the greater number 

 of naturalists. 



Whatever may be our inclination for indigenous 

 birds, naturalists, and especially travellers, will find, 



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