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Guilemols, Uri&. Puffins^ Fraterculce* Penguins, 

 Aptenodytes. 



These birds ought to have the neck, body, and 

 teet almost perpendicular. We must be very care- 

 ful in skinning them ; for their skin is very often 

 furnished with a layer of fat or grease, which easily 

 spreads ; and to prevent the feathers from becoming 

 dirty, we employ a great deal of cotton and flax, 

 to protect the skin as we take it off. 



Zealous travellers, who would be useful to the 

 science of natural history, will find that we have 

 described methods applicable to all animals. We 

 hope they will attend to our instructions in the 

 paragraph on the chace. They ought never to 

 mount a bird during their journey ; they must con- 

 tent themselves with the mere skinning, imbuing 

 the skins with the preservative, stuffing them, and 

 sewing up the opening ; they must not forget to 

 apply the spirits of turpentine, or oil of petrolium, 

 and to envelope them in paper, that the feathers 

 may not be soiled. 



It now remains for us to speak of the method of 

 mounting dried birds, which have been sent to us 

 from foreign countries. The greater part of the 

 proceedings are the same as those already described 

 for tfioimting fresh birds. The wires are formed 

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