INDEX. 



347 



Colonring bare skins of mammals, 

 207 

 Bills and feet of birds. 207 

 Cases and mounts, 237 

 Casts, 185 

 Skin of fishes, 207 

 Comic groups, 253 



Of monkeys and frogs, 253 

 Combs and wattles of gallinaceous 



birds, to preseve, 209 

 Commencement of taxidermy 



proper, 10 

 Composition for modelling tongues 

 and muscles, 211 

 Or clay substituted for loose 

 stuffing, 131 

 Compound or bellhanger's pliers, 



58 

 Corrosive sublimate, solution of, 



Waterlow's, 69 

 Corals, to clean, 230 

 Cork, virgin, for rockwork model, 



240 

 Corncrake or landrail, to decoy, 51 

 Crabfish, 223 

 Crabs, 223 

 Crustaceans, 223 



Curators to museums, education of , 

 313 



Damp and mildew in specimens, 



231 

 Dead-falls for small animals, 24 

 Decoying and trapping animals, 17 



Birds by notes, 47 



Ducks, 49 



Gannet or Solan goose, 49 



Gulls, 49 



Landrail or corncrake, 51 



Quails, 48 



Terns, 49 



Wildfowl, 44 



With stalking horse, 47 



Wood pigeons and doves, 48 

 Decoys, 44 



Decoy whistle for thrushes, 48 

 Derivation of taxidermy, 1 

 Digging for pupge, 308 

 Dissecting knives, 57 



Doves and wood pigeons, to decoy, 



48 

 Ducks, to decoy, 49 

 Dressing skins or fura as leather, 



192 

 Drum for sugaring moths, 299 

 Drying and colouring ferns, 207 

 And colouring grasses, 207 

 And colouring seaweeds, 207 

 And storage of specimens, 247 

 Board or "set" for birds' 

 skins, 102 



E. 



Education of curators, 313 

 Egg cabinets, 232, 238 



Collecting and preserving, 207, 

 225 

 Eggs, emu, 262 



Egyptian mode of embalming, 8 

 Elastic system for collections of 



vertebrates, 329 

 Embalming, 1 



Chemicals used in, 5 



Egyptian mode of, 8 



Guanches' mode of, 8 



Preservatives for, 3 

 Emu's eggs, 262 

 Entomological pins, 289 

 Eyes, glass, 211 



Hollow, 211 



Inserting, 121 



F. 



False body for mounting animals, 



164 

 Feather cleaning, benzine coUas 



for, 203 

 Flowers. 263 

 Pliers, 59 

 Feet and bills of birds, colouring, 



207 

 Ferns, drying and colouring, 267 

 Grasses, &c., for " fitting up," 



242 

 Fieldfares and redwings, to trap, 



21 

 Figure of 4 trap, 24 

 Fins of fishes, to repair, 210 



