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Gasoline, uses, for cleaning feathers. 19, 114 
Cleaning fur 19 
Degreasing bones 180 
Degreasing skins 115 
Disinfecting skins 74 
Geese, method of making skins .... 108 
Glasses, field, use of 26 
Magnifying, use of 43 
Glycerine, use as preservative 21 
Gophers, pocket, trapping 32 
Grease, in bones 180 
In feathers 18,113 
In hair 18 
In skins 114 
Grease-burn, of skins. 19 
Hares, skinning 79 
Hawks, treatment of crop 108 
Heads, birds, skinning 93 
Birds, large-headed, skinning. ... 106 
Deer, for mounting 69 
Horned, method of skinning 68 
Making artificial, for mammals. . . 58, 79 
Packing for shipment 71 
Herons, legs and neck 108 
Hide poison, for large hides 74 
Hides, large, drying 73 
Tying up for shipment 74 
Hoofs, skinning 72 
Horns, skinning horned head 68 
Horse packing, cases for 23 
Huber, Wharton, methods for fat 
water birds 113 
Hunting, best time for 26 
Hydrogen peroxide, for bleaching 
bones 176 
For removing blood stains 98 
Identifications, importance of 5 
Ink, for labelling 40 
Insect pests, to kill 14, 74 
Insect powder, used on trap 30 
Insecticides 14,74 
Insects, collecting methods 2 
Instruments, useful in collecting. . . 9, 125 
Invertebrates, collecting methods . . 2 
Killing, methods for amphibians. . . 138 
Birds 86 
Insect pests. 16 
Mammals 25 
Reptiles 138 
Knives, skinning 9 
Labels, essential data 41, 48 
Leather 41 
Method of tying 41 
Monel metal 40 
Paper 40 
Leg-iron for skinning shankbone. . . 72 
Legs, mammals, opening cuts, cased 
skins 48 
Large mammals 67 
Life-association areas 29 
Ligamentarv skeletons, birds 174 
Mammals 171 
Lips, mammals, pocketing 70 
Sewing up 57 
Skinning 50 
Live animals, catching 34,37 
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Locality, need for exactness 42 
Maceration, bones, cleaning by. . . . 176 
Magnifying glasses, need for 43 
Mammalogy, beginnings of 1 
Mammals, of Canada 2 
Care after shooting 7 
Drying large skins 73 
Drying small skins 122 
Economic importance 3 
Fluctuations in numbers 3 
Hoofed 72 
Inter-relationships 4 
Large, measuring for mounting. . . 46, 65 
preparation in cold weather 76 
preparation in hot weather 76 
methods of skinning 67 
mounting 46 
skinning 67 
trapping 26 
Published lists 2 
Reasons for collecting 4 
Shooting 25 
Short-haired, skinning 72 
Small, measuring .... 44 
skinning 48,54 
trapping 29 
Markers, for trap-lines 29 
Measurements, birds 88 
Mammals, large 65 
small 44 
Mercury bichloride, use on skins. ... 75 
Metric system, use of 44 
Mice, traps for 31 
Moles, traps for 33 
Molluscs, preserving 2 
Monel metal, use of 41, 177 
Mothballs 13 
Moths, killing and repelling 13, 14, 74 
Mounting, mammals, measurements 
for 65 
Muskrat, skinning 78 
Muzzle, skinning out 70 
Naming specimens 5,47 
Naphthaline, for repelling moths. . . 13 
Use in driving out bats 33 
Needles, kinds needed 19 
Nests, birds’, collecting. 125 
Nostrils, birds 102 
Mammals, skinning 50,70 
Oakum, for filling skins 17 
Ossification, of skulls 119 
Osteology, science of 171 
Outfit, for collecting 9, 125 
Owls, eyes, treatment of 93, 110 
Skins, making up 110 
Packing, skins, for shipment 24 
Paints, water colours 89 
Pancreatin, use of, blowing eggs. . , 126 
Bones, cleaning 177 
Paracide, as fumigant 15 
Paradichlorobenzene. See paracide 
Paraffin, use of, on gun-wads 26 
Teeth, coating 181 
Traps, waterproofing 32 
Parasites, on birds 123 
Blood 124 
