Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hints on Preserving and Mounting Birds
This little handbook is expressly intended to serve as guide for the amateur bird collector, desirous of preserving and mounting his own specimens.
In these days of ultra-civilization, when it has be come the fashion in some quarters to scoff at the idea of bird-collecting, a book on bird-preserving will not unlikely be received with some misgiving; and if any apology is needed for the appearance of the present volume, 'let it be that in Spite of the abuse that has been showered upon the bird collector in recent years, he still ?ourishes in most parts of the country, and moreover, is likely to continue so long as the sporting elements inherent in every healthy British boy endure; for after all, it is, as Mr. E. C. Arnold has remarked, out of the schoolboy and his catapult in most instances that the great naturalist is eventually evolved. Happily for Britain, the old sporting spirit, which has done so much to estab lish the race in its present position amongst the nations of the earth is still strong at home, and shows no signs of abating.
Looked at from any angle, the wholesale slaughter of birds must be condemned by every thoughtful man, and all good sportsmen involuntarily recoil in disgust from a record of butchery, miscalled sport.
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