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them for more, according as they (hall find Oppor- 
tunities to procure them for him : Befides he is fen- 
fible how much he may depend on their good Dif- 
pofition to inftrutt him, for which he is very thank- 
ful. 
However defirous one may be of fending Birds 
of the Country where one lives, to another, where 
the like are not to be feen, one may be at a Lo fs 
how to fend them on a long Journey without their 
being disfigured or falling to Pieces by Corruption 
on the Way. I am going to explain here the dif- 
ferent Means one may have recourfe to, for keep- 
ing them from Corruption, and to make them ar- 
rive in a good Condition. 
The fir ft Way. 
The Method hitherto pra&ifed to acquaint Natu- 
ral Philofophers of very remote Countries with 
Birds of another Country, is to fend them fluffed, 
that is to fay, to take off their Skin with all the 
Feathers upon it, from the Body and the Thighs, 
leaving the Legs, the Wings, and for the better 
Conveniency the whole Neck with the Bill flicking 
to it. Filling afterwards the Skin thus taken off with 
fome foft Stuff, either Straw, Hay, Wool, or Flax, 
&c. or even firetching it over a folid Mould of 
the Shape of the Bird, you give to this Skin, as 
near as poffible, the Form of the Body of the Bird, 
which it had when it covered its Flefh and Bones ; 
in which -one fometimes fucceeds tolerably well, by 
Attention, and fome fmall Proceffes, the Particulars 
of which are not intended here to be entered into. 
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