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38 ON STUFFING BIRDS. 
pel, while every endeavour was made to preserve all the liga- 
ments. He then anointed the skin with the arsenical soap, 
and also the skeleton, and then returned it to its place within 
the skin, and carefully disposed of the feathers on either side. 
He formed a ring on a piece of iron-wire at nearly a third of 
the length of the wire, and passed this wire through the head; 
the smallest side passed into the rump in such a manner, that 
the iron-ring came under the sterntm; a leg-wire was then 
passed through each leg, so that the ends of them united to 
pass into the little ring in the middle of the back bone, where 
they were secured with a string. The flesh of the muscles was 
replaced by flax, or chopped cotton; and when he had satis- | 
fied himself with the form, it was then sewed up, placed on a 
foot-board, or support of wood, where he gave it the attitude 
intended, of which he was always certain, for a bird mounted 
in this manner can only be placed in a natural attitude. 
Becour mounted quadrupeds in the same manner, and with 
equal success. 
M. MAUGE’S METHOD OF STUFFING BIRDS. 
This naturalist had a method of preparation and stuffing, of 
which he was the inventor, and which he practised with con- 
siderable success. It was as follows:—(The bird is supposed 
to be a small one.) 
He took two pieces of wire, in length and thickness required | 
for the bird he was about to stuff. One of these was some- 
what longer than the other. The longer piece he pointed at 
both ends with a file, and the shortest piece at one end only. 
One end of each wire was held under the fore finger and thumb 
of the left hand; he then twisted the other parts five or six 
times round, about three quarters of an inch from the point of 
the other wire with the finger and thumb of the right hand, 
leaving an untwisted space large enough for a finger to pass 
through; he now twisted it four or five times more, leaving a 
second space untwisted for the purpose of passing the feet-wire 
through, and also of producing a triangular form with the first 
interval he had left untwisted, the smaller opening being one 
turn above the triangle. 
‘Lhe wires for the feet were straight, and pointed at one — 
