CHAPTER IV 



THE COLLECTING OF MAMMALS, BIRDS, AND OTHER 

 VERTEBRATES, AND INVERTEBRATES, BY VARIOUS METHODS 



To give even a tenth of the methods employed in the chase 

 and procuring of the various animals which are fit subjects for 

 the atelier of the ordinary taxidermist, or advanced artist, would 

 fill a work much larger than the present, and therefore but a 

 slight sketch can be given of the means adopted by the 

 naturalist-collector, either in this or in any other country. 



Taking the mammals first, it will be obvious that the 

 larger foreign ones are collected by means of pitfalls, dead- 

 falls, and other special methods in the cases of savage nations 

 not fully supplied with firearms, but that the greater number 

 procured by sportsmen and collectors all the world over are 

 killed by arms of precision. It is not necessary here to enter 

 into the respective merits of single- or double-barrelled rifles, 

 of large or small bores, of " Express,'' " Paradox," and the 

 thousand -and -one other breechloaders now placed upon the 

 sporting markets of the world ; for a consideration of all these 

 and many minor matters important to the " big-game " hunter, 

 the reader is referred to current numbers of the Field, the 

 American journal Forest and Stream, to some foreign period- 

 icals, and to numberless works on shooting by such hunters 

 as the late Sir Samuel Baker, C. J. Anderson, F. C. Selous, 

 and many others, and particularly to those on Big-game 



