xvi CONTENTS. 



OHAPTEE 11. 



PAGS 



Arrival at Antigua— Dominiea— Frogs and Htimmiug-birds— Martiuico 

 —Diamond rock— Barbadoes—Quashi and Venus — The Alien Bill- 

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

 Orab-eating Owl — Sun-heron — Feet of the Tinamon • — Vampires 

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

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

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

 ^India-rubber — ^An ingenious deception 310—334 



ON PRESERVING BIRDS FOR CABINETS OF NATURAL 

 HISTORY. 



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

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

 Inserting cotton — KilUng wounded 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 — Value of corrosive sublimate — 

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



EXPLANATORY INDEX , 351—494 



TAXIDERMY ........... 495—510 



INDEX .... = ....... 511-520 



