lOO THE SHIKARI 



If every possible care is taken from the time of 

 shooting to the day they are delivered to the pro- 

 fessional man for the final mounting, the hunter will 

 ever after have the untold pleasure and delight of 

 seeing the beasts that have cost him many a hard 

 day's work, and no little endurance and straight 

 shooting, looking at him from his walls, as in the 

 days, never to return, they gazed at him from their 

 native bush. 



The Scientific Side. — There are two sides to 

 everything, and having disposed of the hunter's side 

 of taxidermy, we come to that other side which has 

 its fascinations, and which the hunter might find time 

 and pleasure in taking up. 



That is the making of collections for scientific 

 purposes, to bring back the material, with full details 

 and data, that, submitted to the scientist, help to solve 

 the many problems of nature that are at present 

 shrouded in obscurity. 



The field is illimitable ; there are the plants, the insect 

 life, the reptiles and fishes, and the beasts and birds. 



The two last are, perhaps, the groups that will 

 attract the hunter and explorer most, and so it is to 

 these we propose to confine ourselves, especially as 

 they come strictly within the title of this chapter. 



If it is desired to take up the other groups, the 

 reader must be referred to the many works that treat 

 of this kind of collecting, or to the authorities in- 

 terested in those branches of natural science. 



