LIST OF PLATES. 
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Fig. ii. — Page 64. 
Straight-nosed pliers : Used for bending wires in mounting. 
Fig. 12. — Page 64. 
Cutting-pliers: Used for cutting wires in mounting. 
Fig. 13. — Page 66. 
Body of a bird : E, neck-wire, which should be as long as 
the neck and tongue in order to reach into the upper man- 
dible. This wire should be wrapped in cotton. B, wire before 
clinching ; G, C, wire clinched ; F, tail wire bent in the form 
of a T at H, a leg wire going through tarsus along dotted 
line to D. 
Fig. 14. — Page 67. 
Roughly-drawn skeleton of a pinnated grouse, only suffi- 
ciently accurate to indicate the different bones : A, skull ; B, 
B, B, vertebrae ; furcula of neck and back, or wishing-bone ; 
D, forearm ; F, carpus, showing hollow in bone through which 
the wire is to be passed in wiring the wing; G, end of 
furcula ; H, tip of keel ; I, indentations in posterior border 
of stemma ; J, femur ; K, tarsus ; L, heel ; M, pelvis ; N. 
cocyx ; O, crest of keel ; P, side of keel ; X, wire used in 
mounting skeleton ; A, B, ribs. 
Fig. 15.— Page 69. 
Outline figure of grouse showing external parts : A, back ; 
B, rump ; C, upper tail coverts ; D, under tail coverts ; E, 
ventral region ; F, tibra ; G, tarsus ; H, breast ; I, side ; J, 
throat ; N, chin ; L, abdomen ; M, feet. 
Fig. 16.— Page 73. 
Outline drawing of a mounted bird : A, A, dotted line to 
indicate the relative position of the head and body, with the 
