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by a pellet of cotton filling the skull cavity and overlapping that in the 
back of the neck. This neck padding eliminates the skin wrinkle that is 
frequently formed at the base of the skull when the neck filler is thrust 
directly into the back of the skull. The neck stuffing is wrapped around 
a stick a little shorter than the neck and body, or a piece of wire a little 
longer than the stuffing is to be. The cotton neck should not exceed the 
natural length of the neck, and the cotton body should be rolled to the 
approximate size of the natural body (Figure 35). For warblers, spar- 
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rows, etc., a wooden toothpick or a burnt match stick is about the proper 
size, and for a grouse or a small hawk a stick of the thickness of a lead 
pencil is about right. 
