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Title: Taxidermy

Author: Leon Luther Pray

Release Date: August 15, 2009 [EBook #29691]

Language: English

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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