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[Illustration: HEAD OF ROYAL BENGAL TIGER. MOUNTED BY THE AUTHOR.]

    TAXIDERMY
    AND
    ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTING

    _A COMPLETE HANDBOOK FOR THE AMATEUR TAXIDERMIST,
    COLLECTOR, OSTEOLOGIST, MUSEUM-BUILDER,
    SPORTSMAN, AND TRAVELLER_

    BY
    WILLIAM. T. HORNADAY

    _For eight years Chief Taxidermist of the U.S. National Museum; for
     seven years Zoological Collector and Taxidermist for Ward's Natural
     Science Establishment; late Superintendent of the National Zoological
     Park; author of "Two Years in the Jungle," etc._

    WITH CHAPTERS ON
    COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS

    BY W.J. HOLLAND, PH.D., D.D.

    _Chancellor Western University of Pennsylvania; President of the
     Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburg, and the Iron City
    Microscopical Society; Life Member of the Ent. Soc. of France; Fellow
    of the Ent. Soc. of London, etc._

    ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES BRADFORD HUDSON
    AND OTHER ARTISTS

    24 plates and 85 Text Illustrations

    _FOURTH EDITION_

    NEW YORK
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
    1894

    COPYRIGHT, 1891 BY
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


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