. The oist . d Q 8 THEOOLOGIST cotton has been inserted cotton merely makes the pullingback the harder. In cleaning the skullcut away the rear partitions of the eye-sockets so that the cotton may be in-serted from the rear through the the work has been done quickly andaccurately so far the skin will now befresh, limp, and in excellent naturalorder, neither shrunken nor undulystretched in any part. Arsenic maynow be applied to areas not beforereached, and the stuffing of the skincarried on as usual. Speed means auniformity of specimens too, which isdesirable. It seems that
. The oist . d Q 8 THEOOLOGIST cotton has been inserted cotton merely makes the pullingback the harder. In cleaning the skullcut away the rear partitions of the eye-sockets so that the cotton may be in-serted from the rear through the the work has been done quickly andaccurately so far the skin will now befresh, limp, and in excellent naturalorder, neither shrunken nor undulystretched in any part. Arsenic maynow be applied to areas not beforereached, and the stuffing of the skincarried on as usual. Speed means auniformity of specimens too, which isdesirable. It seems that all things be-ing considered, the most importantfactor in making perfect bird skins isspeed coupled with accuracy. When abird is rapidly skinned a large part ofthe arrangement of feathers, etc.,simply takes care of itself. The above is offered merely with thehope that an added word now andthen may urge the rising generation onto perfection. Anyone who sees dailyhundreds of bird skins naturally comesto pass on
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