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Guide to Taxidermy 



To find these organs, cut through the belly walls 

 with your scissors, from the anus diagonally to the 

 base of the lower rib on the right side. With your 

 scapel push the intestines aside and you can see the 

 sexual organs resting on the front of the kidneys. 

 The testicles are a pair of nearly spherical whitish 

 bodies, side by side; the ovaries are a flat, whitish 

 mass of irregular shape, readily recognized when 

 producing eggs, but at other seasons of a fine gran- 

 ular appearance. Both the ovaries and testes are 

 connected with a fine whitish thread to the lower 

 bowel. This will prevent your mistaking the 

 whitish caps of the kidneys, which are present in 

 both sexes, for the testes of the male. 



