. Birds' nests & eggs : with directions for preparing, stuffing, and mounting birds and animals : with thirteen engravings and diagrams, and a coloured illustration of the eggs of British pet eggs. Birds; Birds; Taxidermy. PREPARING AND STUFFING ANIMALS. is raised, the wing on that side slightly elevated, the head turned in the same direction, and the foot advanced, the tail drooping, but raised slightly towards the point of alarm. Perhaps, how- ever, the tyro will obtain a better lesson on this subject than we can give by studying the attitudes given to birds in the sketches of Mr. Harris
. Birds' nests & eggs : with directions for preparing, stuffing, and mounting birds and animals : with thirteen engravings and diagrams, and a coloured illustration of the eggs of British pet eggs. Birds; Birds; Taxidermy. PREPARING AND STUFFING ANIMALS. is raised, the wing on that side slightly elevated, the head turned in the same direction, and the foot advanced, the tail drooping, but raised slightly towards the point of alarm. Perhaps, how- ever, the tyro will obtain a better lesson on this subject than we can give by studying the attitudes given to birds in the sketches of Mr. Harrison Weir, some of whose drawings illustrate the series of books to which this belongs. The Landseers, Ansdell, AVolff, and sevei'al artists of well-known repute as painters of animals, may also be studied with advantage. But his task is not yet finished; however carefully the skin- ning may have been performed, there will be a difficulty with some of the feathers. In order to keep them in. their place, and get them to be smooth, it is sometimes necessary to dress them ^vith a modeller's iron, heated, taking care that the iron is not hot enough to scorch the feathers. Having got them into a proper state, the French curators bind long bands of soft paper round them to keep them in that position, fixing the paper by means of pins, as in engi-aving. My own practice, and, I beheve, that of most English naturalists, is to keep the feathers in their place and position by winding cotton- thread round them. By this toieans, having smoothed a feather into its proper curve at the hollows and twists of the neck, for instance, by winding a thread round it in two or three places while it is damp, I can be certain that it will retain that position when dry; the thread wound round the body keeps every feather in its place. This, I think, cannot be accomplished by a paper band, however skilfully STUFFm(^ AlTD MOUNTING QUADRUPEDS. Before commencing operations, it is necessary to have the
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