. Elementary zoology. Zoology. REARING ANIMALS AND MAKING COLLECTIONS 463 of the collector, with any particular information which will make it more instructive. If such special data are too voluminous for a label, they should be written in a general note-book called " Notes on Collections" (kept in the schoolroom with the collection), the specimen and corresponding data being given a common number so that their association may be recognized. In the following paragraphs are given brief directions for catching, pinning up, and caring for insects, for making skins of birds and mammals,
. Elementary zoology. Zoology. REARING ANIMALS AND MAKING COLLECTIONS 463 of the collector, with any particular information which will make it more instructive. If such special data are too voluminous for a label, they should be written in a general note-book called " Notes on Collections" (kept in the schoolroom with the collection), the specimen and corresponding data being given a common number so that their association may be recognized. In the following paragraphs are given brief directions for catching, pinning up, and caring for insects, for making skins of birds and mammals, and for the alcoholic preservation of other kinds of animals. Bisects.—For catching insects there are needed a net, a killing-bottle, a few small vials of alcohol, and a few small boxes to carry home live speci- mens, cocoons, galls, etc. For preparing and pre- serving the insects there are needed insect-pins, cork- orpith-lineddrawers or boxes, and small wide- mouthed bottles of alco- Fig. 169.—Insect killing-bottle; cyanide of potassium at bottom, covered with plaster of Paris. (From Jenkins and Kellogg.) The net, about 2 feet deep, tapering and rounded at its lower end, is made of cheesecloth or bobinet (not mosquito-netting, which is too frail), attached to a ring, one foot in diameter, of No. 3 galvanized iron wire, which in turn is fitted into a light wooden or cane handle about three and a half feet long. The killing-bottle (fig. 169) is prepared by putting a few small lumps (about a teaspoonful) of cyanide of potassium. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937. New York : H. Holt and company
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