Part 1 — PART I.
Reading edition
COLLECTING AND PRESERVING.
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1. The Best Knives for a Collector or Taxidermist,15
2. Squirrel partly Skinned27
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