Practical taxidermy, and home decoration : together with general information for sportsmen (1880)
Batty, Joseph H., d. 1906 · New York : Orange Judd Company · leaf 134
to beskinned and mounted. Some of the larger ones it is al-most impossible to mount successfully, so delicate is theirskin, and so small and thin their scales. Pike, large trout, salmon, and the thick-skinned fish-es, are the most easily handled. All species lose colorwhen dried, and it is… … FISH, AN^D HOW TO MOUKT THEM. 131 Place the fish on the side, and make a longitudinal cutwith a sharp pair of scissors in the middle of the ^de,large enough to admit of removing the body in two pieces.Cut the flesh carefully from the skin around the incision,and sever the body through the middle.…
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