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Title: The book of woodcraft
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Camping Outdoor life Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f skintucked into the small skull and may be easily pulled outwithout cutting. In large birds the knife must be used.The next and last difi&culty is the eyes. The skin mustbe cut free from them, carefully avoiding injury to theeyelids or the eyeballs. Now the skin is attached only to the forepart of theskull (Fig. 4). Cut off the neck at the back of the skulland the skin is freed from the body, but needs carefulcleaning. Dig the eyes out of the sockets, taking great care notto break the eyeballs, as their liquid is very difficult toremove from the feathers. Cut out a section of the skullso as to enlarge the hole behind by extending it downwardand sideways, as shown in Fig. 5, and remove the brainsthrough this. Cut off any lumps of flesh left about thejaws, but do not break the jaw bone or its joints. Next turn attention to the wings. Push the skin backto the first joint (the elbow) in each. Cut and scrapethe meat from the bone. But there is a joint beyond 356 The Book of Woodcraft
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Skinning and stuflfing a Robin Natural History 357 this — the one that corresponds with our forearm.This must be reached in a different way. There aretwo bones in this, and the space between them is fullof meat. The quill feathers on its under side hold theskin tight. In birds up to the size of a robin, this canbe cut out after the skin is forced a little farther backthan the elbow joint on the upper side, but in large birdsit is well to slit the skin under the wing from X to J (Fig.i), along the line between the two bones. Clean off the leg bones in the same way as the first wingjoint, turning the skin back as far as the heel joint (H inFig. 2). Carefully scrape off any lumps of fat left on theskin, and especially remove the grease and flesh aboutthe tail bones. Now this is the time I have usually found most con-venient to remove stains from the plumage. If of blood, hold the stained feathers on the insiderim of a cup of lukewarm water and wash till clear. Thendry the feathers with

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