INDEX 



Acid, picric, 229 



Aajusting' lipg of mammals, 136 



Air gun for collecting small birds, 



46 

 Alcoholic solution, 79 

 Animals, decoying and trapping, 

 17 



Making skeletons of, 207, 220 



To group artistically, 254 



To model, 151 



Tissue, to preserve, 229 

 Anti-insect nostrums, 228 

 Antiquity of hawking, 30 

 Aquaria, 248 



Arrangement of collection of inver- 

 tebrates, 339 



Of museum, 324 

 Arsenical paste, 67 



Soap, 63 

 Artificial backbone for fish, 178 



Body for birds, 122 

 Artistic mounting — general re- 

 marks, 249 



Grouping of animals, 254 

 Assembling cage for moths, 304 



Moths, 303 



B. 



Backbone for fish, wire for, 178 

 Backhouse on dressing skins, 195 

 Bait for gulls, 39 



Baiting gin or box trap, 42 



Bare skin of mammals, colouring, 



207 

 Bats, to skin, 150 

 Beetles, 280 



Killing and setting, 281 

 Bellhanger's or compound pliers, 



58 

 Benzine collas for feather cleaning, 



203 

 Best glue, 228 

 Bichromate of potash, 229 

 Bills and feet of birds, colouring, 



207 

 Binding birds into shape, 109 

 Bird brace or knot, 36 



Catching with nets, 30 



Lime, directions for making, 



27 

 Lime for trapping birds, 26 

 Relaxing skin of humming, 202 

 Birds and their young, groups of, 

 256 

 Artificial body for, 122 

 Bills and feet of, colouring, 



207 

 Binding into shape, 109 

 Cleaning white plumage, 204 

 Glass shades for, 235 

 Mounting, 106 

 Setting up, lOS 

 Skinning and preserving, 91 

 Skins, cleaning-, 203 

 Skins, drying board for, 102 



