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CHAPTER VI 
Collecting and preserving of fishes 152 
Summary, page 152; Collecting, page 152; Where to collect, page 152; What to 
preserve, page 154; Photographs and colour sketches, page 154; Collecting 
equipment and methods, page 154; Check list of collecting equipment, 
page 158; Preserving, page 158; Containers, page 158; Shipping, page 159; 
Preservatives, page 159; Preserving, page 162; Mounting and casting 
specimens, page 163; Labels and records, page 163; Labels, page 164; 
Records, page 166; Licences, page 167; Deposition of specimens, page 167; 
References, page 168; Canadian faunal works, page 168; General ichthyo- 
logical texts, page 169; Literature cited, page 169, 
CHAPTER VII 
Collecting skeletons 171 
Preparation of rough skeletons, page 171; Special points regarding skeletons, 
page 173; Cetaceans, page 173; Bird skeletons, page 174; Fishes, reptiles, 
and amphibians, page 175; Packing skeletons, page 175; Cleaning skulls 
and other bones, page 176; Cleaning skulls and bones with aid of dermestid 
beetles, page 178; Degreasing bones, page 180; Treatment of teeth, page 
181; Incisor teeth of ruminants, page 182. 
Permits for scientific purposes 183 
References 184 
Illustrations 
Figure 1. Ventilated collecting case with gauze-bottomed trays 22 
2. Fibre collecting case for pack-horse work 23 
3. Museum Special model trap for small mammals 31 
4. Figure-4 trap 34 
5. Eskimo deadfall trap 35 
6. Cat trap . 35 
7. Measuring total length of a small mammal 45 
8. Unprime areas on skins of pocket gopher and chipmunk during moult. . 49 
9. Skinning tail of a small mammal 49 
10. Skinning head of a small mammal 50 
11. Wooden and wire stretchers for cased skins 51 
12. Cased skin of rufous-tailed chipmunk, showing dorsal and ventral 
aspects 52 
13. Making opening cut for study skin 55 
14. Skinning legs of a small mammal 55 
15. Sewing up mouth of a shrew 57 
16. Making artificial head for a small mammal skin 58 
17. Making artificial body for a small mammal skin 60 
18. Filling a study skin of a small mammal 61 
19. The “baseball stitch” used for sewing mammal and bird skins 61 
20. Pinning out a small mammal skin for drying 62 
21. Examples of well-made, small mammal skins 63 
22. Measurements of a large mammal for mounting 66 
23. Opening cuts for skinning large mammals 67 
24. Skinning a horned head 69 
25. Method of wiring a rabbit skin 80 
26. Drying bat skin with wings partly spread 82 
27. Opening cut for skinning a bird 90 
28. Severing tail from body of a bird 91 
29. Bird skinned to base of bill . 92 
30. Detaching body and cleaning skull 93 
31. The inside of a bird skin with flesh removed 94 
32. Skinning wing of a large bird 95 
33. Tying wing bones in natural position 97 
34. Turning head skin back over skull 98 
35. Making artificial body for bird skin 100 
36. Adjusting artificial body in bird skin 101 
37. Finished bird skin, showing method of tying mandibles and of attaching 
label 102 
38. Wrapping a bird skin with cotton 103 
39. Corrugated drying-board for bird skins 104 
40. Skinning large-headed birds 106 
