. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. 478 THE ANIMALS AND MAN spread from tip to tip of outstretched wings; length of wing, i. e., length of wrist-joint to tip; length of bill in straight line from base (on dorsal aspect) to tip; length of tarsus, and length of middle toe and claw. To skin the bird, cut from anus to point of breast-bone through the skin only. Work skin away on each side to legs; push each leg up, cut off at knee-joint, skin down to next joint, remove all flesh from bone, and pull leg back into place; loosen skin at
. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. 478 THE ANIMALS AND MAN spread from tip to tip of outstretched wings; length of wing, i. e., length of wrist-joint to tip; length of bill in straight line from base (on dorsal aspect) to tip; length of tarsus, and length of middle toe and claw. To skin the bird, cut from anus to point of breast-bone through the skin only. Work skin away on each side to legs; push each leg up, cut off at knee-joint, skin down to next joint, remove all flesh from bone, and pull leg back into place; loosen skin at base of tail, cut through' vertebral column at last joint, being careful not to cut through bases of tail- feathers; work skin forward, turning it inside out, loosening it carefully all around, without stretching, to wings; cut off wings at el- bow-joint, skin down to next joint and remove flesh from wing-bones; push skin forward to base of skull, and if skull is not too large (it is in ducks, woodpeckers, and some other birds), on over it to ears and eyes; be very careful in loosening the membrane of ears and in cutting nictitating membrane of eyes; do not cut into eyeball; remove eyeballs without breaking; cut off base of skull, and scoop out brain; remove flesh from skull, and "poison" the skin by dusting it thoroughly with the powdered arsenic and alum mixture. Turn skin right side out, and clean off fresh blood-stains by soaking them up with corn-meal; wash off dried blood with water, and dry with corn-meal. Corn-meal may be used during skinning to soak up blood and grease. There remains to stuff the skin. Fill orbits of eyes with cotton (this can be advantageously done before skin is re- versed); thrust into neck a moderately compact, elastic, smooth roll of cotton about thickness of the natural neck;. Fig. 244. Setting-board in cross-section to show construction. (After Comstock.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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