Taxidermy Part 8

Wrap the skull muscles on with excelsior rolled in palms of hands. Wrap a tail of pulled excelsior laid straight along a wire much smaller than is used in legs.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 42.]

Drill the center-board for legs and tail as shown in Fig. 42, which shows general a.s.sembling details. When the legs, head, and tail are finished, push the head and body-core into place in the skin, shove in the legs and tail, and wire the legs and tail fast in the center-board same as head was fastened.

The remainder of the mounting is accomplished in exactly the same way as the filling and finis.h.i.+ng of a small mammal specimen, _i. e._, by stuffing the neck, body, and back of thighs and finis.h.i.+ng the face and feet with a batch of papier-mache compo. No. 2. If the mouth is to be open, follow directions given for finis.h.i.+ng an entire rug-head.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 43.]

To hold in the hollow of the flanks, cut several short, strong pieces of wire, sharpen them to cutting points, push them through the skin along line of hollow in front of hip, drive them firmly into the core-board, and then, with cutting pliers clinch their ends down to hold the skin in and cut off surplus wire, picking the fur out well to cover them. (See Fig. 43.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 44.]

To support the compo.-filled ears until set and dry, drive a sharpened wire into the head, through hollow of ear. Point the wire in direction ear is to lay or stand and between ear and wire lay a loose, flat wad of cotton or tow. With a furrier's needle and thread take a narrow loop through center of ear near tip and tie lightly around wire to hold until dry. When dry remove the thread with scissors and the wires by a slight twist with pliers.

Mammals of the sizes named may be mounted so skillfully by this method that they cannot be told from mannikin specimens.

Specimens of this size need not be entirely mounted at one sitting.

Prepare the skin, wire and wrap the legs and head, and make the center-board in one day, a.s.semble the specimen and place the body filling the next day, and make the feet, mount the specimen, and finish the head the third day.

A little carbolic acid in the a.r.s.enic-water will help keep the skin from slipping the hair. Also keep unfinished parts wrapped in damp cloths wrung from carbolic acid water.

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE END]

[Transcriber's Note: The following corrections have been made to the text.

Page 10: "uphosterer's" to "upholsterer's"--"one upholsterer's regulator".

Page 12: "speical" to "special"--"your special tools".

Page 21: "betwen" to "between"--"rump between two".

Page 32: "rightangle" to "right angle"--"short right angle bend".

Page 37: "eyesockets" to "eye sockets"--"cotton of the eye sockets".

Page 99: "transportaion" to "transportation"--"for transportation and".

Page 100: "thoroughy" to "thoroughly"--"cool thoroughly before".]

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