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INDEX. 



Birds, to preserve by carbolic acid, 

 230 



Wattles and combs of, to pre- 

 serve, 209 

 Blocking heads, 162 

 Blocks for setting insects, 279 

 Blood from feathers, removing, 204 



Imitation of, 216 

 Blowpipe for collecting warblers, 



- 45 

 Boards, setting, for insects, 275 

 Book boxes for insects, 287 



On natural history, 311 

 Bottling fish and reptiles, saline 



solution for, 80 

 Bow net, 39 

 Boxes, book, for insects, 287 



For collecting insects, 283 



Postal, for insects, 283 

 Box trap, 42 



Braces for shaping birds, 111 

 Bracing butterflies on board, 278 

 Breeding cage for insects, 309 

 Brick trap, to set, 18 

 British Museum, specimens in, 13 

 Brown cement, 89 

 Browne's Preservative Powder, 71, 

 72 



Preservative Soap, 6S 



Preservative Solution, 80 

 Brushing mammal's fur, 196 

 Buff Arches moths, sugaring, 300 

 Bullfinches, to trap, 43 

 Bullock's Preservative Powder, 71 

 Butterflies, to brace on board, 278 



Purple Emperor, haunts of, 

 292 



Swallowtail, haunts of, 292 



Cabinets for eggs, 232, 238 

 For insects, 287 

 For skins, 238 



Cage for assembling moths, 304 

 For breeding insects, 309 

 For collecting larvge, 307 

 For mounting skins of animals, 



165 

 Trap, 43 



Calabashes for wild fowl, 44 



Camphorated fluid for preserving 



fishes, &c., 81 

 Carbolic acid to preserve birds, 230 



Acid wash, 77 



Wash, 77 

 Carbonate of soda, or natron, 5 

 Cases, 232 



And mounts to colour, 237 

 Casing up with rockwork, &c., 239 

 Casting a horned head, 153 



Fish, 183 



Fishes in plaster, &c., 173 



Eays, 187 



Sharks, 187 

 Casts to colour, 185 



To hollow out, 157 

 Catapult for small birds, 45 



Gun, 46 

 Caterpillars, to preserve, 219 

 Cement, 88, 89 



Brown, 89 



For moulding, 215 

 Chameleon, to preserve, 191 

 Chemicals used in embalming, 5 

 Chip boxes for sugaring moths, 302 

 Clap-net, method of laying, 30 

 Classification of specimens in 



museum, 322 

 Clay modelling, 214 



Or composition substituted 

 for loose stuffing, 151 

 Cleaning skins, 199, 203 



White plumaged birds, 204 

 Cleansing the intestines, 7 

 Climbing irons for collecting eggs, 



225 

 Cloth to stick to towel, 228 

 Collecting and preserving eggs, 

 207, 223 



And preserving insects, 264 



And rearing larvae, 306 



Boxes for insects, 283 



Eggs, climbing irons for, 225 



Insects by day and by night, 

 293 



Nets for insects, 266 

 Colour, &c., of interior of museums, 



317 

 Colouring and drying ferns, 207 



And grasses, 207 



And seaweeds, 207 



