British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna of the British Islands From the Commencement of the Pleistocene Period Down to the Present Day (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna of the British Islands From the Commencement of the Pleistocene Period Down to the Present Day

To the accumulated and carefully sifted facts recorded by this formidable array of writers the author has ventured to add his own observations and theories. Although a good deal of his time has been spent in Africa, he has nevertheless from his youth up been a student of the British Mammalia in all parts of the United Kingdom. His first interest in British beasts was no doubt prompted by their aesthetic aspect, their beauty of outline or colour; and though he has since become entangled in the fascinations of comparative anatomy, the strongest attraction which beasts and birds still possess for him lies in the part they fill (or should fill) in British landscapes.

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