. The encyclopaedia of sport. OPEDIA OF SPORT [shooting as clean a condition as possible for preservation,it is as well to know how to proceed. Toooften the birds are thrown together in a heap atthe bottom of a punt, or are carried about allday in a capacious pocket, or game bag, or tiedby the necks and thrown down anywhere whenthe next chance of a shot presents itself, no oneof which plans is to be commended. If a bird, when shot, has fallen in the water,or on dry sand or shingle, well and good ; butit will often happen with shore birds that theydrop on soft ooze, where, if only winged, theyw
. The encyclopaedia of sport. OPEDIA OF SPORT [shooting as clean a condition as possible for preservation,it is as well to know how to proceed. Toooften the birds are thrown together in a heap atthe bottom of a punt, or are carried about allday in a capacious pocket, or game bag, or tiedby the necks and thrown down anywhere whenthe next chance of a shot presents itself, no oneof which plans is to be commended. If a bird, when shot, has fallen in the water,or on dry sand or shingle, well and good ; butit will often happen with shore birds that theydrop on soft ooze, where, if only winged, theywill run and flutter and get considerably soiledwith mud. This must be washed off sooner orlater if the specimen be intended for preserva-tion, and it is as well to do it as soon as possiblebefore the mud or the blood has time to dryand stain. When obliged to wash a bird, the. collectorwill find it an advantage to use salt and water,instead of plain water, for the salt prevents thesolution of the blood globules, and consequent. Ear-tailed Godwit. diffusion of the red hfemaglobin. The specimenthen being clean and dry, a plug of cotton woolshould be inserted in the mouth, and the beaktied to prevent the saliva from oozing out andstaining the feathers. The bird is then droppedhead first into a cone of paper, which causes allthe feathers to lie in the right direction, and thelarger end of the cone being turned over, thespecimen is kept clean and in good order untilthe time comes for skinning it. This method of treatment gives very littletrouble, and will make all the difference in theappearance of a bird if it is intended to be pre-served and mounted. J. E. Harting. RIFLES FOR FOREIGN SHOOTING— The modern rifle is still in process of evolution,and the task of writing upon rifles and rifleshooting is, therefore, in the very nature ofthings, always a difficult one. Within the last five years immense changes and improvementshave been wrought by the introduction intogeneral sporting u
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