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INDEX. 



s. 



Saline solution for bottling fish and 



reptiles, 80 

 Saurians, to mount, 191 

 Scalpels, 57 

 Scissors, 57 

 Scraper with which to dress skins, 



194 

 Screens, mantelpiece, 260 



Modelled as an ornament, 259 

 Searching for eggs of insects, 310 

 Sea rocks, to model, 241 

 Seaweeds, drying and colouring, 

 207 



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

 245 

 " Set," or drying board, for birds' 



skins, 102 

 Setting and killing beetles, 281 



Boards for insects, 275 



Insects, 274 



Up a bird, 106, 121 



Up pike, 173 

 Sharks, to cast, 187 

 Sheep's lights as a decoy, 49 

 Shells for decorating cases of birds, 

 246 



Seaweeds, &c., for " fitting - 

 up," 245 



To polish, 207, 224 

 Shields for heads of animals, 238 

 Sieve trap, to set, 18 

 Skeleton leaves, 207 

 Skeletons of animals, making, 207, 



220 

 Skinning and mounting birds, 

 Waterton on. 111 



And preserving birds, 91 



And preserving fox, 128 



And preserving mammals, 128 



A tortoise, 191 



Bats, 130 



Fish, 173 



Frogs, 190 



Knives, 52 



Reptiles, 188 



Turtles, 191 

 Skin of fishes, colouring, 207 



Of mammals, colouring, 207 

 Skins, cabinets for, 233 



Skin, conversion of, into leather, 

 10 



Mounting, from the flat, 167 



Eelaxing, 199 



Tender, treatment of, 201 



To clean, 199-203 



To wash, 196 

 Sloane's Museum, 13 

 Snakes and snake bites, hints on, 



190 

 Snake, to stuff, 189 

 Snare for birds, 22 

 Snipe, spring tor, 22 

 Snipes, or plovers, to citch, 19 

 Snow, frost and ice, 216 

 Soaps and powders for preserving, 

 63 



Arsenical, Becoeur's, 63 



Arsenical, Browne's, 64 



Arsenical, Swainson's, 64 



Preservative, Browne's, 68 

 Softening skins or furs as leather, 



192 

 Solan, or gannet goose, to decoy, 49 

 Solution, alcoholic, 79 



For bottling fish and reptiles, 

 80 



For preserving fishes, &c., 

 Moller's, 81 



Goadby's, 80 



Of corrosive sublimate, "Water- 

 ton's, 69 



Preservative, Browne's, 80 

 Specimen of skinning, 95 

 Specimens, damp and mildew in, 231 



In British Museum, 13 



In Sloane's Museum, 13 



To dry and store, 247 

 Spiders, to preserve, 207, 218 

 Spirits of wine, 79 

 Springe, 19 



For snipe, 22 



Or snare for birds, 21 

 Stales for decoys, 49 

 Stalking horse, the, 47 

 Starch, as paste, 228 

 Starling, properly skinned, 103 



Showing position when being 

 skinned, 95 

 Steel traps, 40 

 Sticking cloth to wood, 228 



