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Practical Taxidermy for Boys.
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outline drawing, distended by means of pins; the latter may be removed after the glue or mucilage is dry; write in one corner the weight of the fish, the date upon which it was caught, and the name of the place where it was captured. You can then frame it or number the sheet and place it in a portfolio (Fig. 153). In the course of a season's fishing quite an interesting and valuable portfolio of fishes can be made. The writer has often caught fish whose names were unknown to him, and in this manner preserved them, or enough of them to identify the fish at some future period when he had time to look it up.

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Diagram Showing the Parts of a Fish.—A, first dorsal fin; B, second dorsal fin; C. caudal fin; D, pectoral fin; E, ventral fin; F. anal fin; b. operculum or gill cover proper; a, preoperculum or fore-gill cover; d, interoperculum, or middle gill cover; c, suboperculum, or under gill cover; e, branchiostegous, or gill rays; f, lateral line.
Design for a Sketching Aquarium.

If the reader desire to try his artistic skill and attempt a colored drawing of a fish, he should do it from life. To see the fish as it really appears, a very simple contrivance can be made in the form of an aquarium, with wooden ends and glass sides; the wooden ends must have perpendicular grooves in them so

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