CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



COLLECTING AND PRESERVING BIRDS. 

 Sect. Fags 



I. How TO COLLECT 3 



11. How TO PREPARE Specimens. — Instruments, Materials, etc. 10 



III. Measuring, Skinning, and Pbeseeving Birds . . .18 



Measuring 18 



Skinning 22 



Determining the Sex ... 27 



Contents of Stomach, etc. 31 



Exceptions to the usual Method op Skinning . 31 



Table of Measurements . .... 32 



IV. Mounting Specimens 34 



Mounting fresh Birds 34 



Mounting dried Skins 40 



Mounting Birds with the Wings extended . . .41 



CHAPTER II. 



collecting and preserving mammals. 

 Sect. 



I. Collecting . . 43 



II. Measuring Mammals 45 



Skinning 46 



Method of Preparing a Book for Measuring Mammals 47 



Table of Measurements 47 



III. Mounting Mammals . . .... 60 



CHAPTER III. 



collecting and preserving insects for the cabinet. 



Beetles, or Coleoptera ... 55 



Bugs, or Hemipteea .... .... 57 



Grasshoppers, Crickets, etc., or Orthoptera . . . .58 



