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 218 THE CONDOR Vol. XXI As we seldom slept two nights in the same place, and as the bird and mam- mal skins had to be dried while being transported on mule back, I used to place them in paper cones, which I tacked securely to the bottom of the trays. Pro- vided all went well, the skins dried in very. good shape, but the stampede of the pack animals, no very. rare event, was likely to deposit the skins in a heap in one corner of the tray, a catastrophe which necessitated much labor in re- shaping them. MODERN COLLECTING GUNS The collector of today little realizes the boon he has inherited in the small bore guns which are'such convenient and efficient collecting tools. rhen I began work on the Vheeler Survey all my collecting was done with a twelve !

Fig. 46. HENRY WETHERBEE HENSHAW AS A MEMRER OF THE WHEELER EXPEDITIO.X' IN 1877; NOTE EQUIPMEiT OF THE FIELD COLLECTOR OF THAT PERIOD. gauge breech loader, a fearsome weapon to use on hummers and other small species. Brewster and I often discussed the possibility of a better collecting tool, and finally he had a Boston gunsmith make an auxiliary barrel for a twelve gauge gun, carrying a twenty-two cartridge. Meantime I had found in a Vashington gun store a Remington cane gun. I had the rifling removed. and then began experimenting with the twenty-two extra long cartridges---if I mistake not just then brought out--and with various kinds of powders and