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As we seldom slept two nights in the same place, and as the bird and mam- 
mal skins had to be dried while being transported on mule back, I used to place 
them in paper cones, which I tacked securely to the bottom of the trays. Pro- 
vided all went well, the skins dried in very good shape, but the stampede of 
the pack animals, no very rare event, was likely to deposit the skins in a heap 
in one corner of the tray, a catastrophe which necessitated much labor in re- 
shaping them. 
MODERN COLLECTING GUNS 
The collector of today little realizes the boon he has inherited in the small 
bore guns which are such convenient and efficient collecting tools. When I 
began work on the Wheeler Survey ali my collecting was done with a twelve 
Fig. 46. HENRY WETHERBEE HENSHAW AS A MEMBER OF THE WHEELER EXPEDITION IN 1877; 
NOTE EQUIPMENT OF THE FIELD COLLECTOR OF THAT PERIOD, 
gauge breech loader, a fearsome weapon to use on hummers and other small 
species. Brewster and I often discussed the possibility of a better collecting 
tool, and finally he had a Boston gunsmith make an auxiliary barrel for a 
twelve gauge gun, carrying a twenty-two cartridge. Meantime I had found in 
a Washington gun store a Remington cane gun. I had the rifling removed, 
and then began experimenting with the twenty-two extra long cartridges—if I 
mistake not just then brought out—and with various kinds of powders and 
