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fitted to the proper place, after being moiftened 

 with the varnifri (/). 



In fhort, after opening the bird by a longitu- 

 dinal incifion from the breaft to the vent, differ- 

 ing the flefhy parts from the bones, and remov- 

 ing the entrails, eyes, brains and tongue, the 

 cavities and infide of the fkin are to be fprinkled 

 with the powder ; the eyes are then to be inferted, 

 and the head fluffed with cotton or tow ; in the 

 next place a wire is to be paffed down the 

 throat through one of the noflrils, and fixed 

 into the breaft bone wires are alfo to be intro- 

 duced through the feet, up the legs and thighs, 

 and inferted into the fame bone ; next fill the 

 body with cotton to its natural fize, and few the 

 fkin over it ; the attitude is laflly to be attended 

 to, and in whatever pofition the fubjecl is 

 placed to dry, that fame m& pofition will be re- 

 tained afterwards (g). 



When thefe antifeptic powders before men- 

 tioned cannot be had, tobacco land mixed with 

 a fmall proportion of alum, black pepper, and 

 camphor, may be fubflituted. 



Small birds may be preferved in brandy, 

 rum, arrack, or firfl runnings though in this 

 manner the color of the plumage is liable to be 

 extracted by the fpirit. 



Large fea-fowl have thick, ftrong fkins, and 

 fuch may be fkinned ; the tail, claws, head, and 



(/) It is almoft impoffible to proportion an artificial brer.ft 

 exactly of the natural fize and fhape ; cotton or tow anfvvcrs 

 every purpofe with lefs trouble j the varnifh I have before 

 obferved to be ufelefs and inconvenient. 



(g) The author's collection in natural hiftcry is always 

 open for infpection, and any information in his power may 

 fee commanded. 



