قراءة كتاب 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

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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

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Browne Montagu

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PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY

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.

ILLUSTRATED.

MONTAGU BROWNE, F.Z.S., etc..,

Curator, Town Museum, Leicester.

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SECOND EDITION,

Revised and considerably Enlarged,

With additional Instructions in Modelling and Artistic Taxidermy.

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LONDON:

L. UPCOTT GILL, BAZAAR BUILDINGS, DRURY LANE, W.C.

(FORMERLY OF 170, STRAND).

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 153-157, FIFTH AVENUE.

Plate I Peregrine Falcon on Flight

Showing Method of Binding etc..

Frontispiece — see chapter V

LONDON:

L. UPCOTT GILL, LONDON AND COUNTY PRINTING WORKS,

BAZAAR BUILDINGS. W.C.

CONTENTS.

Plate I Peregrine Falcon on Flight *

PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY *

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. *

CHAPTER I. THE RISE AND PROGRESS of TAXIDERMY. *

CHAPTER II. DECOYING AND TRAPPING ANIMALS. *

Fig. 1 — Loop in wire. *

Fig. 2 — "SPRINGE," OR SNARE FOR BIRDS. *

Fig. 3 — "Springe" FOR SNIPE. *

Fig. 4 — "FIGURE of 4" TRAP. *

Fig. 5 — PLAN AND METHOD OF SETTING CLAP-NET. *

Fig. 6, 7 & 8 — "Play-stick" parts *

Fig. 9 — "FLUR" OR "PLAY-STICK." *

Fig. 10 — DECOY WHISTLE FOR THRUSHES, etc.. *

CHAPTER III. NECESSARY TOOLS. *

Fig. 11, 12, 13 — SKINNING KNIVES. *

Fig. 14 — SCISSORS, No 1. pattern. *

Fig. 15 — SCISSORS, No 2. pattern. *

Fig. 16. — Bell-hangers' Pliers. *

Fig. 17 — Cutting nippers. *

Fig. 18 — French Cutting Nippers *

Fig. 19 — Feather Pliers *

Fig. 20 — Tow Forceps *

Fig. 21 — Stuffing Iron *

CHAPTER IV. PRESERVATIVE SOAPS, POWDERS, ETC. *

Plate II Skeleton of Peregrine Falcon *

CHAPTER V. SKINNING AND PRESERVING BIRDS. *

Fig. 22 — Starling — Showing Position of First Incision and the Commencement of the Removal of the Skin *

Fig. 23 — Skin of Bird Turned Ready for Severance from Body *

Fig. 24 — "Set" or Drying Board for Birds' Skins.

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