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very long and thick, we must soak them with tur- 

 pentine at their roots, and place little bags of cam- 

 phire at intervals ; if this substance does not always 

 kill the insects, at least it will disperse them. 



Shore Birds, (Grallce, Lin.) 



The screamer (palamedea), the jabiru (mycteria) ? 

 and the pelican (onocrotalus), are amongst those 

 birds whose tarsi must be opened, to take away the 

 tendons, as we have before mentioned for the king 

 of vultures. 



Flamingo, Phoenicopterus. 



This singular bird inhabits all temperate cli- 

 mates, and is amongst those whose heads we cannot 

 pass within the neck, when skinning them. When 

 we meet with obstacles of this nature, we bare the 

 neck as high as possible, by disengaging or pushing 

 up the skin towards the back of the head, then 

 cut off the neck and draw the skin straight again ; 

 and to enable us to take away the remainder of the 

 vertebrae and the brain, we make an incision be- 

 hind the head, turning back the skin right and left, 

 we expose the first cervical vertebra, which we cut ; 

 we enlarge the occipital hole, to facilitate the taking 

 away of the brain, and remove the eyes by the same 

 opening. All this being done, we sew the skin 



