The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 422
especially if the birdcannot be skinned at once, it is most essential; for if the speci-men be packed up when still warm, putrefaction sets in withastonishing rapidity, as we have found to our cost. A painfulreminiscence comes over us as we write, of a rare bird forwardedto us by a friend, who… … 26 THE POPULAR RECREATOR. strong doses of carbolic acid, and plenty of practice enabledus to save it. We •will now proceed to some instructions respecting theskinning of specimens; but first, for the convenience of thefceginner, we give on page 24 a small diagram of the essentialanatomy of a bird,…
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