OF SKINNING QUADRUPEDS. ¢ 
stances, the incision is made as high as the collar bone. In.) 
this operation the hairs must be Gacotelle separated to the right 
and left, and none of them cut, if possible. The skin is also 
turned back to the right and left, putting pads of cotton or 
with. If any fatty or oily substance should be noticed, it 
_ way above the anus, and then the tail is separated, as close to 
the handle of the scalpel cutting-knife between it and the car- 
the shoulders. The whole hinder paris and trunk of the hody 
joint, or the base of the Os humerit. When the joint of one 
shoulder has been separated from the body, the leg is again 
put into the skin, and the animal then turned in order to repeat 
the same with the other side, the limb of which is also re- 
| of the scalpel. It is taken off as far as the point of the nose ; 
while great care must be taken not to injure the eyelids, and 
avoid cutting the lips too close. 
All this having been performed, the head and trunk of the 
animal are completely separated from the skin. The next 
_ operation is to remove the head of the animal from the trunk, 
at the upper bone of the vertebra. The external muscles of 
the head and face are then carefully cut off with a scalpel, and 
the bones left as free from flesh as possible. The occipital 
bones are next enlarged by means of a strong knife, or other 
instrument ; and the brain all carefully removed. The fore legs 
* Those who are unacquainted with the names of the different bones of 
the skeleton, will find a full detail of those of both Quadrupeds and Birds, 
in our description of Plate I. 
| case. It is pulled gradually upwards until the operator reaches | 
being thus out of the skin, the next operation is to remove the | 
fore-legs, by separating them from the body at the shoulder- | 
turned. The skin is then removed from the neck. The next | 
thing is to separate the skin from the head by the assistance | 
_ to cut the ears as close to the skull as possible; and also to | 
tow between it and the muscles, as the skinning is proceeded | 
_ must be carefully wiped away. The skin being removed as | 
far in every direction as the extent of the incision will admit | 
of, each of the thighs must be separated at its junction with | 
the pelvis, that is, by the head or ball of the Os femoris,* or | 
thigh bone. The intestinal canal is then cut across, a litile 
the animal as possible. After this the pelvis is pulled out of | 
the skin, and the skin separated from the back by inserting | 
