58 METHODS IN THE ART OF TAXIDERMY. 



of almost any size, and also the smaller mammals. If possible, always 

 use brass shells with your shotguns, though expensive at first, like the 

 copper wire which I recommend for mounting birds, they will last for- 

 ever. In selecting a rifle for hunting large game, the quantity of pow- 

 der and weight of lead is all there is to be considered if you intend 

 using any of the first-class rifles. By all means choose a rifle for 

 which you can most readily procure ammunition. The 45-calibre 

 Government cartridge, loaded with 70 grains of powder and 405 grains 

 of lead, has sufficient penetration to kill the largest game we have in 

 this country, and it has no unpleasant recoil. 



If you are to hunt in the land of the elephant, rhinoceros and hip- 

 popotamus you should provide yourself with a double No. 8 rifle or a 

 double-barreled No, 8 smooth-bore. The latter is the style of weapon 

 which was used by Mr. Hornaday while hunting elephants in India.' 



Field Outfit. — If you are to collect specimens in the vicinity of 

 your home, you will, of course, return to your workshop to prepare 

 them. This is the case at least with the smaller specimens which can 

 be transported entire without much difficulty. The large subjects 

 must, in most cases, be skinned where they happen to fall, and this is 

 often far from camp when the means of transportation is limited. 

 Sometimes in traveling we must skin our smaller specimens on the 

 top of our tool chest, on our lap, and on any other surface where we 

 can work to the best advantage. 



If the procuring of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes are to oc- 

 cupy your entire time and attention on a collecting trip of perhaps 

 eighteen months, in any quarter of the globe, the following, which 

 chiefly formed Prof. Wiley's outfit while collecting in Africa, would 

 undoubtedly fill the bill on any similar occasion of a trip extending 

 over the same period of time. 



1 s-boiv double-barreled rifle. 



1 Sharp's special rifle, 45-100-500. 



1 12-gaug(' <louble-barreled Itreecli-loadiiig shot guu with fifty brass sliells and 1000 



No. '1 primers; a 'A'l auxiliary l)arrcl, with two dozeu brass shells, and 1000 



No. 1 primers. 

 1 Barclay loader. 



1 .';2-calibre Smith ct "Wesson revolver. 

 10 pounds powder. 



50 pounds of shot, various sizes, from the size of mustard-seed and upwards. 

 1000 paper labels, two or three sizes. 

 200 lead labels. 

 200 pun- tin labels. 

 6 butcher knives, or better still, killing knives, PI. 1, Fig. 5. 



1. Si-c "Two Years in the Jungle," bv \\'illiam T. Hornadav. Ftiblished Ijy Charle> Sciibner's Sons, New 

 York. 



