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strips of wood, closing the groove below. Into this cork 

 is thrust the pin on which the insect is mounted. An- 

 other strip of wood is fastened to the lower sides of the 

 cleats to which the two strips are nailed. This serves 



as a bottom and protects 

 the points of the pins which 

 project through the piece of 

 cork. The wings are held 

 down, after having been out- 

 spread with the hinder mar- 

 gins of the fore wings about 

 at right angles to the body, 

 by strips of paper pinned 

 down over them. 



' ' Soft specimens ' ' such as 

 insect larvae, m3Tiapods, and 

 spiders should be preserved 

 in bottles of alcohol (85 per 

 cent). Nests, galls, stems, 

 and leaves partly eaten by 

 insects, and other dry speci- 

 mens can be kept in small 

 pasteboard boxes. 



For a good and full ac- 

 count of insect-collecting and 

 preserving, with directions 

 for mal^'ing insect-cases, etc. , 

 see Comstock's "Insect 

 Life, ' ' pp. 284-3 H- 



Birds. — In collecting 

 birds, shooting is chiefly to be relied on. Use dust-shot 

 (the smallest shot made) in small loads. For shooting 

 small birds it is extremely desirable to have an auxiliar}' 

 barrel of much smaller bcirethan the usual shotgun which 

 can be fitted into one of the regular gun-barrels. In such 



Fig. 256. — Setting-board with butter- 

 flics properly "spread." (After 

 Comstock.) 



