The sportsman's handbook to collecting, preserving, and setting-up trophies & specimens : together with a guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward.

  • Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912.
Date:
1911
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The sportsman's handbook to collecting, preserving, and setting-up trophies & specimens : together with a guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time and patience. The lip must be treated by passing the knife between the mucous lining and the outer skin all round the mouth, so as to admit of the pre- servative completely penetrating this thick portion of the specimen. The eyelids and the feet must each be treated in a similar manner for the same reason. Finally, great care must be taken that the claws or hoofs are well kept, this being specially necessary in the case of tigers, whose claws (and whiskers) are valued by the natives. TURNING BACK SKIN OF FOX’S EAR. A great deal of the above description applies to the skinning of a fox’s head, which I particularise because it is an operation which frequently exercises the amateur naturalist, and it well serves to exemplify the proper treatment of most hornless animals. The illustration above shows the process of turning Jback the skin so that the cartilage of the ear may be operated on; while the cut on p. 36 is designed to explain the delicate operation of treating the eyelid—a part of the work over which the greatest care must be taken. The removal of the lip at its juncture with the gums,