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id: 29691
author: Pray, Leon Luther
title: Taxidermy
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words: 20335
sentence: 1208
flesch: 80
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summary:
  In this condition small skins may be sealed in glass jars or friction top tins and kept damp thus for some time. Skin legs clear to toes and remove flesh cleanly from bones.


id: 46066
author: Maynard, C. J. (Charles Johnson)
title: Manual of Taxidermy A Complete Guide in Collecting and Preserving Birds and Mammals
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words: 24591
sentence: 1120
flesch: 75
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summary:
  A good collecting gun, one which will kill small birds with a very small amount of ammunition and little noise, has long been a desideratum. Small birds, like warblers, will set perfectly hard in forty-eight hours in a moderate temperature with dry air.


id: 43090
author: Warford, Aaron A.
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words: 26993
sentence: 1152
flesch: 74
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title:
  How to Stuff Birds and Animals A valuable book giving instruction in collecting, preparing, mounting, and preserving birds, animals, and insects

summary:
  Two small gimlet-holes are then made for the reception of smaller wire, by which the leg-wires must be bound together close to the bar. As much as possible should be scraped off, in the first place, with a blunt table-knife or palate-knife, and a quantity of powdered chalk applied, to absorb what remains, which, when saturated with the oily matter, should be scraped off and a fresh supply used, after which a much larger proportion of the preserving powder should be applied than in other birds which are not fat.


id: 23259
author: Farnham, Albert Burton
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words: 41736
sentence: 2031
flesch: 78
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title:
  Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration

summary:
  Horns and antlers and head skins or scalps of all our large game have a certain value either separately or together. A short piece of plank rounded off and bolted to the top of the table or work bench will do for small skins.


id: 26014
author: Browne, Montagu
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words: 133168
sentence: 4466
flesch: 66
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title:
  Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

summary:
  As they are useful, however, to fill up and quickly dry cavities in the wings, and such like, of large birds, etc, and in some cases even to prepare a skin for future stuffing, I will give a powder of my own composition, the chief point of merit of which consists in its being harmless to the user, and also that it has been tried on a large bird's skin, which it so effectually preserved and toughened that, eighteen months afterwards, it was relaxed and stuffed up better than the usual run of made skins: No. 8.--Browne's Preservative Powder. The feathers of the skin must now be beaten with a bundle of stiff feathers, or the wing of a goose, or other large bird, until nearly dry, then dry plaster added from time to time, and the skin twirled about in the open air if possible.


id: 40109
author: Holland, W. J. (William Jacob)
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words: 132932
sentence: 5889
flesch: 74
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title:
  Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller

summary:
  If filled out full size, large bird skins fill up boxes and drawers wonderfully fast, and generally it is best to flatten such skins a little. Large bird skins should always be sewn up.


