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hot climates) will be, that maggots will be generated 
in fuch uncured parts, and of courfe the birds de- 
ftroyed. Suppofing however for a moment (what will 
fcarce be found to happen once in a thoufand tryals) 
that the pickle fliould penetrate and cure every part, 
we have then, What ? — a bird preferved in its natural 
Ihape, dimenfions, attitude, and colours. No, but 
we have a poor fhriveled-up dried carcafe of a bird, 
in which neither the natural fhape, dimenfions, or 
colours, are preferved, and which continuity excites 
the difagreeable idea of the poor thing’s having been 
ftarved to death on purpofe. It is true the eyes look 
lively and in full prefervation ; and no wonder, for they 
are glafs" they ferve, however, by the contrad, to 
fliew more drikingly the miferable condition of the 
red of the body. One would have imagined that 
fo palpable an abfurdity, as the placing a fine full 
glidening eye in the head of a body, not only mani- 
fedly dead, but appearing to have perifhed by fick- 
nefs or famine, would have been obvious to every 
body ; to have kindly differed the languid eyelids to 
clofe, would have at lead: avoided fo ridiculous a 
contradiction. Laftly, experience thews that birds 
thus treated are feldom or never fo cured, but 
that the flefh grows rank ; that ranknefs invites 
the infedts, and of courfe the bird is foon dedroved, 
A fecond method of preferving birds is, by immerging 
them in fpirits, and if the barely keeping the car- 
cafe of birds from putrefaction is all that is required, 
I mud own this method is an effectual one, and con- 
gratulate the naturalids on the facility with which 
they may now procure foreign birds. We have 
nothing 
