COLLECTING AND PRESERVING.

FIG.PAGE
1. The Best Knives for a Collector or Taxidermist,[15]
2. Squirrel partly Skinned[27]
3. Skinning a Squirrel's Head,[28]
4. A Model Mammal Skin,[34]
5. Another Form of Mammal Skin,[35]
6. Opening Cuts on a Large Mammal,[40]
7. Opening Cuts at Back of Prong-horn Antelope's Head,[41]
8. A Well-made Dry Deer-Skin,[43]
9. Foot of an Orang-Utan,[44]
10. Names of the External Parts of a Bird,[47]
11. First Steps in Skinning a Bird,[50]
12. Bird Skin, Wrong Side Out,[51]
13. The Bird Skin in Position,[53]
14. The Skin Half Wrapped,[54]
15. Spreading the Tail,[55]
16. The Skin fully Wrapped,[55]
17. A Perfect Bird Skin,[56]
18. How to Shape a Heron Skin,[60]
19. How to Open a Turtle,[69]
20. Agassiz Tank, for Alcoholics,[73]
21. Bird Nest, in situ,[92]
22. Wire Standard for Nests,[93]
23. Nest on Wire Standard, with Labels,[94]

PART II.

TAXIDERMY.

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24. Skin Scrapers, about One-fourth Actual Size,[103]
25. Leg Making and Wiring,[117]
26 Wiring Together,[119]
26a. The Legs Wired Together,[121]
27. The Finished Specimen,[124]
28. Author's Method of Mounting Bats on Glass,[128]
29. Artificial Skeleton for Hand of an Orang-Utan,[131]
30. Fillers of Various Kinds,[133]
31. An Iron Square,[136]
32. Leg Irons of an American Bison,[144]
33. Skinning a Deer's Ear,[161]
34. The Ear Half-Skinned,[161]
35. Skinning Down the Inside,[162]
36. The Cartilage Out,[162]
37. Internal Mechanism of a Deer's Head,[164]
38. Complete Manikin for a Deer's Head,[165]
39. Modeling Tools of Wood,[173]
40. Modeling Tools of Wood,[173]
41. Modeling Tools of Wood,[173]
42. Steel Modeling Tool,[174]
43. Steel Modeling Tool,[174]
44. Steel Modeling Tool,[174]
45. Side View of Tiger's Tongue,[175]
46. End View of Tiger's Tongue,[175]
47. Top View of Tiger's Tongue,[175]
48. Wiring a Bird's Leg,[184]
49. Cross-Section of Artificial Body,[185]
50. The Finished Body and Neck,[185]
51. How the Leg Wires are Inserted and Clinched,[186]
52. The Winding of the Bird,[189]
53. Cast of the Neck and Windpipe of a Heron,[195]
54. Method of Mounting Alcoholic Reptiles,[203]
55. Medallion of Yellow Pike,[213]
56. Cross Section,[213]
57. Wall Case of Birds,[223]
58. Wood Duck,[232]

PART III.

MAKING CASTS.

FIG.PAGE
59. Beginning to Make a Piece Mould,[260]
60. Second Step in Making a Piece Mould,[261]
61. Last Step in Making a Piece Mould,[262]
62. The Finished Mould,[262]
63. The Beginning of a Waste Mould,[263]
64. Second Step in Making a Waste Mould,[264]
65. Chiseling Off the Waste Mould,[265]

PART IV.

OSTEOLOGY.