MANUAL OF TAXIDERMY. 
PART I. — BIRDS. 
CHAPTER I. 
COLLECTING. 
Section I. : Trapping, etc. — Several devices 
for securing birds for specimens may be success- 
fully practised, one of the simplest of which is the 
box-trap, so familiar to every schoolboy. If this 
be baited with an ear of corn and placed in woods 
frequented by jays, when the ground is covered 
with snow, and a few kernels of corn scattered 
about, as an attraction, these usually wary birds 
will not fail to enter the trap. I have captured 
numbers in this way, in fact, the first bird which I 
ever skinned and mounted, was a blue jay, caught 
in a box-trap. I was only a small boy then, so I do 
not now remember what first suggested mounting 
the bird, but the inherent desire to preserve the 
specimen must have been fully as strong then as 
in later years, or I never could have brought 
myself to the point of killing a bird in cold blood. 
