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Title: Taxidermy
Author: Leon Luther Pray
Release Date: August 15, 2009 [EBook #29691]
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TAXIDERMY
BY
LEON L. PRAY
_Illustrated_
[Illustration: OUTING HANDBOOKS]
Number 47
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
MCMXVI
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. TOOLS AND MATERIALS 9
II. PREPARING AND MOUNTING A BIRD 19
III. SKINNING, PREPARING, AND MOUNTING A SMALL MAMMAL 45
IV. PREPARING AND MOUNTING GAME FISHES AND SMALL REPTILES 65
V. PREPARING AND MOUNTING A VIRGINIA DEER HEAD 87
VI. PREPARING AND MOUNTING A COYOTE 107
TOOLS AND MATERIALS
TAXIDERMY
CHAPTER I
TOOLS AND MATERIALS
The art of taxidermy, with its many methods of application, has
furnished subject-matter for numerous books, most of these treating the
subject in exhaustive style, being written primarily for students who
desire to take up the work as a profession. It is the present author's
purpose to set forth herein a series of practical methods suited to the
needs of the sportsman-amateur who desires personally to preserve
trophies and specimens taken on days spent afield with gun or rod.
The lover of field and gun may spend many fascinating hours at his
bench, preparing, setting up, and finishing specimens of his own taking.
Besides, the pursuit of this art will afford an amount of remuneration
to the amateur who takes it up in a commercial way, doing work for
others who have neither the time nor inclination for preparing their
own specimens.
The chief req
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