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MANUAL OF TAXIDERMY. 
Place this body in the skin and push the pro- 
truding wire into the upper mandible. Cut two 
wires of about half the size of that already used, 
and twice the length of the outstretched wing. 
Work these into the wings, beginning at the 
fleshy portion of the phalanges, so on into the 
body, taking care not to allow it to pierce through 
the skin anywhere. The wire should enter the body 
at the point where the end of the lower portion 
of the forearm touches it when the wing is folded 
naturally. Pass the wire through the body diag- 
onally until it emerges so that it can be grasped 
with the pliers somewhere near the orifice, and 
firmly clenched. Next find the metacarpal bone, 
which has a hollow place in the centre (Fig. 14, f), 
and force the upper end of the wire through it so 
