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id: 26014
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  "The Old Shekarry," Gordon Cumming, Jules Gerard, C. J. Andersson, Emil Holub, F. C. Selous, etc, all of whom have either written books on sporting


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id: 29691
title: Taxidermy
author: Pray, Leon Luther
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  Use care not to cut skin around tail, as at knee. Next peel the neck skin down over head to bill, pulling out ear linings To set neck-wire in body, thrust it in a little above center of larger note sketch and wrap a soft neck of natural size upon the wire (see Fig. 6). Leave head end of neck a little bit long to set into brain cavity It now remains to place the body, set wings and legs and tail, sew up When legs are set shake and carefully pull skin of rump into place. Position the legs, body, and head, and set the tail To make up dry bird skins for keeping to mount at a future time, follow Skin the specimen as you would a small mammal, except that body incision Prepare the skin, wire and wrap the legs and head, and make the


id: 23259
author: Farnham, Albert Burton
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  specimens and the methods for preserving skins of birds and animals in a and feathers of mounted specimens and the interior of furred skins I [Illustration: SKINNING SMALL ANIMAL FOR MOUNTING. [Illustration: SKINNING LARGE ANIMAL FOR MOUNTING. If not mounted at once make into a dry skin after poisoning or small [Illustration: SCIENTIFIC SKINS, SMALL ANIMALS AND BIRDS.] Let us assume that we have a dry skin each of a small bird and a furred In preparing a skin for mounting an open mouth head the lips should be may be filled by sewing in small pieces rather than cut down the skins its place in the head skin, letting the end of wire go through the MOUNTING HEADS OF SMALL ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH. MOUNTING HEADS OF SMALL ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH. A novelty in fur rugs is to mount the skin of some small animal in the

title:
  Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration


id: 26014
author: Browne, Montagu
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  tried of skinning birds in their fresh state, and also of cutting the of drawings, how very few tools are required to skin and set up a bird professional requires to skin and stuff a small or medium-sized bird inside the mouth, a small quantity of carbolic acid wash (Formula No. 16) will be found useful to dilute the preservative paste. Having placed ready for use the skinning knife (see Fig. 11), the Fig. 23--Skin of Bird Turned Ready for Severance from Body Another method of shaping skins whilst drying is described by Mr. Batty, the well-known American taxidermist, who makes a drying board for small skins in the following manner (see Fig. 24): Procure a piece Fig. 24--"Set" or Drying Board for Birds'' Skins. Then place a little piece of tow inside the skin to head, with a long piece of neck-skin attached, severed from the body,

title:
  Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.


id: 40109
author: Holland, W. J. (William Jacob)
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  SKINNING SMALL QUADRUPEDS.--Lay the animal flat upon its back, head to your (especially the tropics), making a large collection of mammal skins for is far easier to mount a fresh specimen in fine style than an old, dry skin MAKING UP A DRY SKIN.--_The Legs._--Having applied the preservatives, if you propose to make up your specimen as a dry skin, wrap a little tow, attached to the skin, just as with small mammals; but, of course, cutting produce; but in treating _small birds that are to be made up as dry skins_, With these great birds it is best to open the skin of each leg from the The animal''s legs, tail, and neck are now skinned precisely as those of a TREATMENT OF LARGE SKINS.--Under this heading it is necessary to place skinned and mounted, it is necessary to wipe the specimen dry, and before

title:
  Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller


id: 43090
author: Warford, Aaron A.
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  the head, legs and tail being all attached to the skin, from which the sheath, and the oval part of the wire placed within the skin of the The mode of fixing the legs is by passing one of their pieces of wire SKINNING, PRESERVING, AND MOUNTING BIRDS. _Manner of holding the hands in skinning a bird._] When the skins are merely wished preserved, the bones of the legs and _4, the oval and head-wires of a bird separated; 5, the tail-bearers A NEW AND EASIER METHOD OF BIRD SKINNING AND STUFFING. the leg, cutting them off close to the body, and turn the skin inside skin, lay it on the table on its back, and pass the wire at the head THE ART OF MOUNTING BIRDS, DRIED SKINS, FEATHERS, ETC. In the preservation of the feathers of Birds, little else is required over the skin of the animal or bird with a brush.

title:
  How to Stuff Birds and Animals A valuable book giving instruction in collecting, preparing, mounting, and preserving birds, animals, and insects


id: 46066
title: Manual of Taxidermy A Complete Guide in Collecting and Preserving Birds and Mammals
author: Maynard, C. J. (Charles Johnson)
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  improvements each has made in skin-making and mounting birds, one Some workmen will remove a skin from a bird which is nearly The time for removing the skin from a small bird should not arsenic: It thoroughly preserves the skins of birds, mammals, reptiles, skinning birds, especially small ones, as then the plumage is dusted any attempt is made either to make a bird into a skin or mount it, SECTION II.: MAKING SKINS OF SMALL BIRDS.--The instruments for SECTION III.: MAKING SKINS OF LONG-NECKED BIRDS.--Sandpipers, skins; then make a body of cotton around the end of a wire that has In making skins of all birds where the back of the head is opened, the of rare birds to make over into presentable skins specimens which have up as in fresh birds, but such skins generally require more careful Making skins of small birds, 50 Mounting dried skins, birds, 78 Skins of small birds, 52


