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extended ; it may be done with fma!i Points of 
Nails. With a Wire only, and a fmall Board, all 
may be done as well as with a Frame: This Wire 
is run through all the Length of the Body and of 
the Neck of the Bird, by inlinuating it through the 
Anus j but before doing fo, you make a fort of a 
Prong Knot to it, by twilling it } this Knot is to 
touch the Anus i it afterwards hinders the Bird 
trom Biding : Clofe by the Knot you bend down 
perpendicularly that Part of the Wire which is with- 
out the Body, and which is to be at lead: of a Length 
equal to the Height which the Legs are to have; 
you make afterwards its End pointed by filing, if 
you have not already done it, and you run it into 
the Board. That Part of the Wire which then is 
out of the Body, ferves for a Supporter, which 
keeps the Bird raifed, bccaufe it is continued to the 
reft of the Wire which runs through the Body and 
the Neck' The Wire which runs through the lat- 
ter keeps it in its bending Way, and the Direction 
that has been given to it. 
Dried Birds ought to be fent in Boxes or Barrels 
fufficiently clofed up, that Infects may not flip in 
during the Journey; and you will take care to fill 
up all the empty Spaces left in the Barrel with fome 
oi thofc foft Stuffs, which we have already pointed 
out for luch Ufes. Many Weeks, nay even Months, 
may pafs between the Time, when you have dried 
the firft Birds you intend to make a Colle&ion of 
for a- Journey, and that Time when they are to let 
out : This. Interval is dangerous. There are certain 
Worms, 1 and certain Beetles, which are more greedy 
after thofe dried in the Oven, than after thofe dried 
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