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The fecond Way* 
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The foregoing Way of preferring the Shape of 
Birds requires a Hand ufed to it, and even falls 
fliorc of fufficiently imitating Nature, unlefs with 
Care and Time. So it is certainly molt convenient 
only to fend the Bird as it has been received. There 
is no great Skill required for putting one or feveral 
into a Vefiel full of Spirit of Wine, or very ftrong 
Brandy. It has been ufual for a long time to make 
ufe of thole Liquors with Succefs for preferving the 
Flefh of dead Animals j and wherefore has this Me- 
thod fo feldom been ufed hitherto to prevent whole 
Birds from Corruption? Perhaps it is becaufc their 
Feathers do not fhew thofe various and bright Co* 
lours, which are natural to them, whilft they are 
immerfed in fome' Liquor, and which appear no 
longer on the Bird s Feathers when taken out of it; 
Befides, the Vanes of the Feathers are then difor- 
dered, and glewed too much together. Upon thefe 
fiift Appearances, it was judged too haftily, that 
fpirituous Liquors changed the Colours of the Fea- 
thers, and hinder'd the reducing of them to the Or- 
der and Pliablenefs they had upon the Animal, 
when dry and living. However repeated Experi- 
ments have made M. Reaumur fenfible,. that the 
Colour of the Feathers is Proof againft the ftrongeft 
Brandy, and even Spirit of Wine, and that after 
having dried the Bird that had been foaked, one 
may eafily put its Feathers into their natural Order, 
and make it appear as it was when alive : 
