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the Denton mount. I do not even know if it is patented. This insect mount is 

 practically a glass box, with a strip of glass on either side, so placed that with 

 the body of the insect between these strips the wings are spread out on them, 

 the glass top over all, and fastened in place with the gummed-paper binder 

 provided for the purpose. When it occurred to me that birds might also be 

 prepared in some such manner, it was at once evident that glass was entirely 

 out of the question because of its weight and liability to breakage, and I 



MOUNTAIN TOWHEE 

 MOUNTAIN TOWHEE PREPARED PREPARED FOR CLASS USE 



FOR CLASS USE— LOWER SIDE —UPPER SIDE 



Bird mounted by method described. The edges of the celluloid strips show in the cut as 

 white lines, dividing the upper cover into three long narrow pieces. 



thought of celluloid, which is what I have used. The first mounts were made 

 with some purchased at a stationery store and which had been kept rolled up, 

 and this was very difficult to make stay fiat. Then I bought a sheet 21 by 

 50 inches from an automobile repair shop and used it. This was flat and handled 

 very nicely. All the celluloid was more or less scratched but that does not seem 

 to interfere with examining the specimens. 



The tests I made were all with skins which I softened and worked over. A 

 wire is run through the bird, coming out at the forehead or near there, and at 

 the tail, and projecting well at either end. It greatly facilitates handling to 



