Practical taxidermy, and home decoration : together with general information for sportsmen (1880)
Batty, Joseph H., d. 1906 · New York : Orange Judd Company · leaf 108
ugh the neck. Pickout the eye-lids in their naturalform, with a needle or small for-ceps, and arrange the plumagesmoothly. Make a body the shape and size of the naturalone, by rolling up a bunch of excelsior, sea-grass, or tow,winding into form with twine or thread. Pass the neck-wire through the… … SKTN READY FOR RE-TURNING. 104 PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY. Wire the legs by running pointed wires through themfrom the center of the feet up behind the bones. Fastenthe leg-bones to the wires by wrapping them with tow andtwine, making the legs a trifle smaller than they werenaturally. Slip the wires…
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