. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . Zoology; Taxidermy. 60 BIOGRAPHY. as long as a pheasant's body. A lath fastened to one end made a capital tail, and all that was needed was to trim the shoulder to the neck, and put a head on the other end, a nail doing duty for a STRUCTURE OF WOODEN PHEASAT^T. By the time that the trees had grown sufficiently for his purpose he had made about a couple of h
. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . Zoology; Taxidermy. 60 BIOGRAPHY. as long as a pheasant's body. A lath fastened to one end made a capital tail, and all that was needed was to trim the shoulder to the neck, and put a head on the other end, a nail doing duty for a STRUCTURE OF WOODEN PHEASAT^T. By the time that the trees had grown sufficiently for his purpose he had made about a couple of hundred of dummy pheasants. He then threw a few sacks full of beans inside the holly hedge, and laid a train of beans into the preserve. The birds, finding the beans on t"he ground, naturally followed the trail, and reaching so abundant a supply of food as they saw inside the hedge, flew over it and feasted to their heart's content. Then, not caring to fly, after having gorged themselves, they settled for the night in the yews. Meanwhile the wooden pheasants were nailed on the trees in the preserve, and so exactly did they resemble the actual birds that in the dark no one could detect the imposition. Even in daylight the dummy so closely re- presents the bird that a second glance is necessary in order to make sure that it is only an imitation. The ac- companying sketch represents one of these dummies on the outskirts of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865. London ; New York : Macmillan
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