CHAPTER IV. 
MOUNTING BIRDS. 
Section I. : Instruments. — The instruments 
necessary for mounting are cutting pliers (Fig. 12), 
or tin shears, straight-nosed pliers (Fig. 11), wire 
of various sizes, tweezers, and other implements 
used in skin-making ; leg awls, for dried skins, and 
awls for boring stands ; also stands of various kinds. 
Section II. : Mounting from Fresh Speci- 
mens. — Be sure that a skin is perfectly clean in 
every way before attempting to mount, as it 
cannot be washed nearly as well afterwards. 
Remove all the bodies of skinned specimens well 
out of the way, and spread a clean sheet of paper 
where the skinning has been done, that there may 
be no danger of soiling the plumage. Make a 
body of fine grass, excelsior, or, better, the peculiar 
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