How to stuff birds and animals

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warford, Aaron A.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"How to Stuff Birds and Animals" by Frank Tousey is an instructional manual written in the early 20th century. This comprehensive guide focuses on the art and science of taxidermy, offering detailed methods for collecting, preparing, mounting, and preserving various birds, mammals, and other animals, as well as guidance on the proper care to maintain the integrity and appearance of the specimens. The opening of the book begins with essential techniques for skinning and preparing mammals, specifically focusing on a fox as an example. Detailed steps are provided for skinning, preserving the skull and limbs, and ensuring the proper measurements are taken prior to the stuffing process. The chapter emphasizes the importance of cleanliness and the precise use of tools to avoid damaging the skin, highlighting techniques for stuffing and mounting that ensure the animals retain a natural appearance. Their care during preservation is also emphasized, ensuring the fur and feathers remain clean, and that the finished specimens are well presented. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Skinning, preparing, and mounting the mammalia, or quadrupeds

Skinning, preserving, and mounting birds

The art of mounting birds, dried skins, feathers, etc.

Collecting and preserving birds' eggs and nests

Skinning, preserving, and setting up reptiles, fishes and molluscous animals, etc.

Preserving spiders, gally-worms, and insects

Receipts, for various articles used in the preservation and setting up of animals

Credits:

Produced by Demian Katz, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/))

Notes:

Reading ease score: 72.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2013-07-03