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Title: The book of woodcraft
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Camping Outdoor life Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ig. 7. A dummy as it would look if all the feathers wereoff. This shows the proper position for legs and wings on thebody. At W is a glimpse of the leg wire entering the body at themiddle of the side. Fig. 8. Another view of the body without feathers. Thedotted lines show the wires of the legs through the hard body,and the neck wire. Fig. 9. Two views of one of the eyes. These are on a muchlarger scale than the rest of the figures in this plate. Fig. 10. The finished owl, with the thread wrappings on andthe wires still projecting. Nw is end of the neck wire. Bp isback-pin, that is, the wire in the centre of the back, Ww and Wware the wing wires. Tl are the cards pinned on the tail to holdit flat while it dries. In the last operation remove the threadand cut all these wires off close, so that the feathers hide whatremains. STUFFING AN ANIMAL Mounting a mammal, popularly called animal, is a muchmore difficult thing than mounting — that is, stuffing — abird. 3^4 The Book of Woodcraft
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To illustrate the mounting of a Homed Owl. Natural History 365 It is so difficult that I do not advise any boy to tryit unless he has the time and patience to go into it seriously.To do this he should get some standard treatise onTaxidermy, such as: Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, by W. T.Hornaday. (Scribners. $2.50) or The Art of Taxidermy, by John T. Rowley. (Mac-millans. $1.75.) Nevertheless all may learn to preserve the skins ofsmall animals for cabinet collections, or for mountingat some later time. The best instructions for this are those issued by theBiological Survey of the United States Department ofAgriculture. I reproduce them. PRESERVING SMALL MAMMAL SKINS By Dr. C. Hart MerriamDirections for Measurement The tools necessary for measuring mammals are a pairof compasses or dividers, a steel rule graduated in milli-meters, and two large pins. Dividers with round pointsare better than those with triangular points. All measurements should give the distance in a straightlin

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