. Rod and gun. AVi^ >*^^ Ki?. PRELIMINARY TAXIDERMY 933. skin on the skull. Proceeding, younext reach the eyes, and must be care-ful to avoid cutting the eyelids, amost important thing to most animals there is a duct nearthe eye, whicti must be carefully dugout from the cavity in which it is set,with the point of the By care-ful skinning, the mouth is soon reachedand all the inner skin must be left onthe skin proper. This same rule ap-plies to the nostrils. The skin is nowentirely removed from the skullwhich must next be severed from thebody where it joins the neck, back
. Rod and gun. AVi^ >*^^ Ki?. PRELIMINARY TAXIDERMY 933. skin on the skull. Proceeding, younext reach the eyes, and must be care-ful to avoid cutting the eyelids, amost important thing to most animals there is a duct nearthe eye, whicti must be carefully dugout from the cavity in which it is set,with the point of the By care-ful skinning, the mouth is soon reachedand all the inner skin must be left onthe skin proper. This same rule ap-plies to the nostrils. The skin is nowentirely removed from the skullwhich must next be severed from thebody where it joins the neck, back ofthe ears. With the knife split theinner and outer skin of the lips andnostrils, but on no account cut theinner skin away. The inner cartilagemust be separated from the outer skmthe ears until they are entirelv in-verted (P^ig. 3). Next, take a quantityof fine salt, rub well into every part ofthe flesh side of the skin, and roll upwith the hairout for twenty-four the salting process and rollcarefully with the flesh side out, tyingwith a sto
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