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There are also first and second " incoming " skins. The former 

 resemble the first winter skins, only they have a little black 

 on the sides which is just going off the pelt ; when it does leave, 

 the skin will be a first winter. (See illustration.) Second incom- 

 ing skins have black marks on the side and top of the pelt. The 

 inside edge of the black marks on the pelt form the shape of 

 a sitting rabbit, though the image in. this case is coloured white, 

 not black, as is the case with second summer skins. " Kittens " 

 is the name given to skins off small and young rabbits. Milky 

 does, as the skins off breeding rabbits are called, are detected 

 by two large brown raised marks on the belly portion of the 

 rabbit-skin, these marks being caused by the dried milk veins. 



If the trapper classes or sorts his skins into the sorts I have 

 named, he will be able to tell the value of each lot, as the 

 price-lists of the buyers of skins will show him what each 

 sort is worth per Ib. 



