TAXIDERMY
Copyright, 1913, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
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 manymethods of application, has furnishedsubject-matter for numerous books,most of these treating the subject in exhaustivestyle, being written primarily for studentswho desire to take up the work as a profession.It is the present author's purpose to setforth herein a series of practical methods suitedto the needs of the sportsman-amateur whodesires personally to preserve trophies andspecimens taken on days spent afield with gunor rod.
The lover of field and gun may spend manyfascinating hours at his bench, prep