TAXIDERMY 109 



wind on some cotton-wool at one end to make the 

 neck, and passing this up the neck force it tightly 

 into the brain cavity. 



Now shorten up the neck, still keeping the skin 

 on the table on its back, and take a long wad of 

 wool between the forceps ; this place carefully and 

 neatly in the throat and along the neck on the top 

 of the stick, seeing that the neck is still kept short. 



Take a piece of wadding equal in size to about 

 half the body, and with the forceps place it in the 



Fig. 22. 



body skin on one side of the stick and up to where 

 the shoulders end. 



Repeat this on the other side and the skin is now 

 stuffed. 



Sexing. — Cut open the body (which be careful 

 not to throw away) along the left ribs with the scissors 

 and lift up the viscera till the back is exposed, when 

 the kidneys will be plainly seen lying each in its 

 hollow on each side of the backbone, and at the top 

 end of these will be found the sexual organs (Fig. 22) 

 — in the male two long or oblong bodies which are 



