CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



PAGE 



Arrival at Antigua — Dominica — Frogs and Humming-birds — Martinico 

 — Diamond rock — Barbadoes — Quashiand Yenus — The Alien Bill — 

 Sail for Demerara — More about the Sloth — Scarlet Grosbeak — 

 Crab-eating Owl — Sun-heron — Feet of the Tinamou — Yampires 

 again — The Karabimiti Humming-bird — The Monkey tribe — The 

 Red Howler — Roast monkey — The Nondescript — Altered physi- 

 ognomy — Gold and silver mines — Changes of Government — Politics 

 — India-rubber — An ingenious deception 310 — 334 



ON PRESERYING BIRDS FOR CABIXETS OF NATURAT. 

 HISTORY. 



Faults Ji bird-stuffing— Tools required— Knowledge of anatomy- - 

 Attitudes of birds— Flow of the plumage— How to skin a bird- 

 Inserting cotton— Killing woxmded birds— Stuffing a hawk— The 

 first incision— The skin to be pushed, not pulled— Arrangement of 

 wings— Modelling the body— Spreading the tail— Constant attention 

 required— Strength and elasticity— Yalue of corrosive sublimate- 

 Experience and patience ........ 335 — 350 



EXPLANATORY INDEX 351-49-1 



TAXIDERMY 495—510 



INDEX 511—520 



