Taxidermias - QSi 
1V.—PREPARATION OF AMPHIBIA. 
Section 21.—Tetrapodal amphibia. 
he stuffing and preserving of these animals is attended 
with the fewest difficulties. ‘They are quite as easily skinned 
and stuffed as any, and are more easily kept than all others. 
We shall commence with the ranae, frogs and toads. 
In preparing toads, we should be very cautious to guard 
against the corrosive secretion, which may well be termed 
poison, that exudes from the skin, as it often produces blisters 
and sores on the skin of some persons ; especially we should 
take care that none of it enters the eyes, for it will, in the 
first. place, occasion a violent and burning pain, and after 
wards perhaps even inflammation 
he secretion, even of the common green frog rana, (Es- 
culenta) may bring on similar consequences if it gets into 
e ey 
In stuffing toads, first at them be strewed with salt; then 
draw out from the warts on their backs this anny tice, 
which may then be easily wiped off. oreover, may, 
in holding them by the back, make use of an old ia or 
napkin. 
n order to skin them, we must first attempt to stun them 
by repeated blows on the head, for so strong is the vital prin- 
ciple i in amphibious animals, in which particular they exceed 
all other animals, that they are not very readily killed. Now 
open the mouth, and cut out the tongue with a small pair 
scissors, then squeeze the body till you are able with twee- 
zers or pincers to seize hold of the oa and thus draw 
entrails. through the mou The bey ang Os 
pletely emptied, | vide are a pale cia lacie , in 
onder Mar it may not pierce the skin must 
the back bone, at the frst vertebra of the neck, push tho id stump _ 
towards the orifice of the mouth, and seize fast hold of it with 
Holding it thus lg ae Mon oh the j Jan inside 
ut, and begin to strip off the skin, By drawing the 
is out Se and helping with” the = a 
