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nor of the very next trouble —to avoid attempting to take off the thin 
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of the bone by introducing the closed scissors between the muscles, and 
opening them t wid o pac to grasp the bone; then we strip the 
muscles from above downward, and snip all the tendons at a single 
stroke below. Practically; iei small birds at least, this is done with the 
thumb-nail, in an instant. in the cases of certain long-winged 
we rem 
arate from both the other bones and all the muscles by cutting its head 
away from the elbow-joint, stripping the muscle off from above down- 
ward, and then removing humerus, radius and all the muscle by a trans- 
verse stroke of the scissors just above the carpal joint. A description 
should have been given of the neat and rapid way of removing the brain 
and all the head-muscles by the four special cuts that may be made in an 
instant; instead of the general directions for scooping out and scraping 
the skull. We think the writer hardly puts the tyro sufficiently on his 
guard against stretching a skin unduly, particularly at the neck, and so 
producing that ugly bare space on each side, difficult to rectify afterwards. 
Except in the cases of large birds, where main strength and awkwardness 
do well enough, no skin should be pulled, or even drawn, off; but should 
am more than 
told, and then spoil his specimen. We should like to make a few sug- 
gestions regarding this matter, but want of space prevents, as it does our 
even alluding to a score of little points which will not be found in this or 
ania than any trestibó upon the subject can possibly be m ee 
In Part II, Mr. Maynard gives what we find to be a very complete and 
otherwise exostiont list of the birds of Eastern Massachusetts. e do 
the changes that Dr. Coues has shown to be necessary or advisable in 
certain families; and in ala specific he is nearly as conservative * as 
* Thus he does not admit Turdus Alicie ger Viendo beige Aud., Ægiothus ez- 
ilipes Coues, Larus Hutchinsii Rich., and L. S onianus Coues. Our Certhia and Eremo- 
Vlil eee Gouna he refers to the European C. enter and E. prises V our hand is 
rss e order, where the writer might have con- 
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