22 METHODS IN THE ART OF TAXIDERMY. 



artistic ability, tube paints, brushes, the palette, and a number of 

 sculptor's modeling tools. 



The modeling tools are made of various materials, such as cocoa- 

 wood, boxwood, wire, zinc, copper, and steel, and are of various shapes. 

 Any of the instruments or materials used by artists may be procured of 

 any dealer in artists' materials, or of F. W. Devoe & Co., IManufacturers 

 and Importers of Artists' Materials, New York City. A few of the most 

 desirable shapes of the modeling tools for our purpose are illustrated in 

 Plate IV ; Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are made of wood, and 7, 8, and 9 are of steel. 



The following Windsor & Newton's tube colors are necessary : 

 Burnt umber, burnt sienna, chrome green, chrome yellow, chrome red, 

 emerald green, flake white, Indian red, indigo, ivory black, lampblack, 

 Naples yellow, Prussian blue, raw sienna, raw umber, sugar of lead, van-" 

 dyke brown, Venetian red, vermilion. These colors are put up in con- 

 venient collapsible tubes, and are the best for fine work. 



A palette 10x14 inches is sufficiently large. This should be accom- 

 panied by a palette-knife and cups. Most of the above colors, it should 

 be remembered, can be procured ground in oil in one-pound cans, and also 

 in dry colors; these will be found absolutely necessary for coarse work on 

 mammals, and the brush suitable for this grade of painting is the com- 

 mon socket sash tool, the best sizes being from Nos. 3 to 9, costing from 

 fifteen to thirty-five cents each. In this kind of work it is also very de- 

 sirable to have a 3 and 4 inch stippling brush, or " stippler," as it is 

 called. For medium work, the best brushes are of fitch hair, or a com- 

 bination of fitch and French bristles, both round and flat ; the sizes 

 from 1 to 6 are the most desirable. For fine work get the artist's round 

 Russia sable hair brushes; the sizes run from 1 to 12, the intermediate 

 sizes answering the more general purpose. 



The artist's materials enumerated above are of the utmost import- 

 ance to any person who would engage in the higher branches of tax- 

 idermic work. With these he must test his ability in putting on the 

 final touches which give expression and color to many of the specimens 

 belonging to the higher orders of the animal kingdom, while they are 

 of just as much importance in finishing a large number of the birds, 

 reptiles, and fishes. 



Artificial Eyes for Animals. — Glass eyes are manufactured in every 

 variety of shape, color and size to suit the various animals. Plate VI 

 will give a fair idea of the sizes, shapes, and styles commonly used. 



In skinning a specimen, be sure and take particular note of the 

 color of the eye, and in ordering from your dealer, you should always 

 give the name of the animal for which the eyes are intended, and state 



