. Bird lore . ished to illustrate his lectures with specimens, and has experienced moreor less difficulty in doing so. Mounted birds are bulky, require special casesfor transportation, and are expensive if one has to have many, and while skinsare convenient enough, they will not stand much promiscuous idea for the method I am about to describe is not original with me; it ismodeled after, I may as well say copied from, a mount for insects, known as 390 Bird - Lore the Denton mount. I do not even know if it is patented. This insect mount ispractically a glass box, with a strip of gl
. Bird lore . ished to illustrate his lectures with specimens, and has experienced moreor less difficulty in doing so. Mounted birds are bulky, require special casesfor transportation, and are expensive if one has to have many, and while skinsare convenient enough, they will not stand much promiscuous idea for the method I am about to describe is not original with me; it ismodeled after, I may as well say copied from, a mount for insects, known as 390 Bird - Lore the Denton mount. I do not even know if it is patented. This insect mount ispractically a glass box, with a strip of glass on either side, so placed that withthe body of the insect between these strips the wings are spread out on them,the glass top over all, and fastened in place with the gummed-paper binderprovided for the purpose. When it occurred to me that birds might also beprepared in some such manner, it was at once evident that glass was entirelyout of the question because of its weight and liability to breakage, and I.
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