Bird lore - Project Puffin

390 Bird - Lore
the Denton mount. I do not even know if it is patented. This insect mount is
practically a glass box, with a strip of glass on either side, so placed that with
the 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 binder
provided for the purpose. When it occurred to me that birds might also be
prepared in some such manner, it was at once evident that glass was entirely
out of the question because of its weight and liability to breakage, and I
MOUNTAIN TOWHEE
MOUNTAIN TOWHEE PREPARED PREPARED FOR CLASS USE
FOR CLASS USE—LOWER SIDE
—UPPER SIDE
Bird mounted by method described. The edges of the celluloid strips show in the cut as
white lines, dividing the upper cover into three long narrow pieces.
thought of celluloid, which is what I have used. The first mounts were made
with some purchased at a stationery store and which had been kept rolled up,
and this was very difficult to make stay fiat. Then I bought a sheet 21 by
50 inches from an automobile repair shop and used it. This was flat and handled
very nicely. All the celluloid was more or less scratched but that does not seem
to interfere with examining the specimens.
The tests I made were all with skins which I softened and worked over. A
wire is run through the bird, coming out at the forehead or near there, and at
the tail, and projecting well at either end. It greatly facilitates handling to