LIST OF PLATES. XV 



Fig. ii. — Page 64. 

 Straight-nosed pliers : Used for bending wires in mounting. 



Fig. 12. — Page 64. 

 Cutting-pliers : Used for cutting wires in mounting. 



Fig. 13. — Page 66. 



Body of a bird : E, neck-wire, which should be as long as 

 the neck and tongue in order to reach into the upper man- 

 dible. This wire should be wrapped in cotton. B, wire before 

 clinching ; G, C, wire clinched ; F, tail wire bent in the form 

 of a T at H, a leg wire going through tarsus along dotted 

 line to D. 



Fig. 14. — Page 67. 



Roughly-drawn skeleton of a pinnated grouse, only suffi- 

 ciently accurate to indicate the different bones : A, skull ; B, 

 B, B, vertebras ; furcula of neck and back, or wishing-bone ; 

 D, forearm ; F, carpus, showing hollow in bone through which 

 the wire is to be passed in wiring the wing; G, end of 

 furcula ; H, tip of keel ; I, indentations in posterior border 

 of stemma; J, femur ; K, tarsus; L, heel ; M, pelvis; N. 

 cocyx ; O, crest of keel ; P, side of keel ; X, wire used in 

 mounting skeleton ; A, B, ribs. 



Fig. 15. — Page 69. 



Outline figure of grouse showing external parts : A, back ; 

 B, rump ; C, upper tail coverts ; D, under tail coverts ; E, 

 ventral region ; F, tibra ; G, tarsus ; H, breast ; I, side ; J, 

 throat ; N, chin ; L, abdomen ; M, feet. 



Fig. 16.— Page 73- 



Outline drawing of a mounted bird : A, A, dotted line to 

 indicate the relative position of the head and body, with the 



