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Identifier: cabinetofnatural02phil (find matches)
Title: The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports
Year: 1830 (1830s)
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Subjects: Zoology Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, John Doughty
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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tried hotwater, steam, hot needles, ether, sulphur, aqua fortis, &c.but found none so decidedly effective as oxalic acid, whichI thus apply:—First, shape a nice small quill into the formof a very sharp pointed blind pen, (i. e. a pen without aslit,) then seize your Moth, with the finger and thumbbetween the wings on the under side, holding its head to-wards you, firmly, but with as little pressure as possible.Then dip your pen-shaped quill into the acid, and run itinto its thorax, just below the head, or between the firstpair of legs; and after two or three quick applications, theMoth will be found perfectly dead. This is not only themost humane and expeditious, but very economical, as two-pence worth of acid would be sufficient to destroy subjectsto fill a whole cabinet. As I am writing for the informa-tion of your young friends, I may be excused for adding,that oxalic acid is in the form of crystals, which must bereduced to a liquid by a little water.—iora. Mag. ofNat. Hist.
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AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. THE COUGAR. FELIS CONCOLOR. (Plate III. Vol. 2.) Felis Concolor et discolor; L. Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 79.sp. 9—12.—Temminck, Monog de Mam. livrais iv.p. 134.—Felis Concolor, Linn^us—Godman, ;o. 291,vol. I.—Le Cougar, Buff. Quad. vol. ix. tab. 59; Cou-gar de Pennsylvanie et Cougar Noir; Buff. Supp.III. p. 41, 42.—Pouma; Garcilasso, liv. viii. chap.xviii.—Gouzara, De Azzara, Quad, du Paraguay,vol. I. p. 133.—Puma; Pennant, ^rt. Zool. vol. i. p.49.—Menagerie of Living Animals, exhibited inPhiladelphia, winter of 1831-2. The interesting animal, from which our drawing ismade, (and which we consider a perfect representation ofthe original,) is well known to the public as belonging tothe celebrated menagerie of wild animals, now exhibitingin the city of Philadelphia. This Cougar was taken on RedRiver, near Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, by ahunting party, after a hard battle, in which he destroyedseveral dogs, and was at last secured by

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Zoology
  • booksubject:Hunting
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__John_Doughty
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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