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MANUAL OF TAXIDERMY. 



Place this body in the skin and push the pro- 

 truding wire into the upper mandible. Cut two 

 wires of about half the size of that already used, 

 and twice the length of the outstretched wing. 

 Work these into the wings, beginning at the 

 fleshy portion of the phalanges, so on into the 

 body, taking care not to allow it to pierce through 



Fig. 13. 



the skin anywhere. The wire should enter the body 

 at the point where the end of the lower portion 

 of the forearm touches it when the wing is folded 

 naturally. Pass the wire through the body diag- 

 onally until it emerges so that it can be grasped 

 with the pliers somewhere near the orifice, and 

 firmly clenched. Next find the metacarpal bone, 

 which has a hollow place in the centre (Fig. 14, f), 

 and force the upper end of the wire through it so 



