CONTENTS. 
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PART I. 
CHAPTER I. 
COLLECTING AND PRESERVING BIRDS. 
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I. How TO COLLECT 3 
II. How TO PREPARE SPECIMENS. — INSTRUMENTS, MATERIALS, ETC. 10 
III. Measuring, Skinning, and Preserving Birds . . .18 
Measuring 18 
Skinning 22 
Determining the Sex 27 
Contents of Stomach, etc. 31 
Exceptions to the usual Method op Skinning . 31 
Table of Measurements 32 
IV. Mounting Specimens 34 
Mounting fresh Birds 34 
Mounting dried Skins 40 
Mounting Birds with the Wings extended . . .41 
CHAPTER II. 
collecting and preserving mammals. 
Sect. 
I. Collecting 43 
II. Measuring Mammals . 45 
Skinning . . 46 
Method of Preparing a Book for Measuring Mammals 47 
Table of Measurements 47 
HI. Mounting Mammals '50 
CHAPTER III. 
collecting and preserving insects for the cabinet. 
Beetles, or Coleoptera . 55 
Bugs, or Hemiptera 57 
Grasshoppers, Crickets, etc., or Orthoptera . . . ,58 
