American Animals A Popular Guide To The Mammals Of North America North Of Mexico With Intimate Biographies Of The More Familiar Species

Author : Witmer Stone
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330387726
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book American Animals a Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America, North of Mexico written by Witmer Stone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Animals a Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America, North of Mexico: With Intimate Biographies of the More Familiar Species In preparing (he present volume the aim has been to produce a work sufficiently free from technicalities to appeal to the general reader and at the same time to include such scientific information relative to our North American mammals as would be desired by one beginning their study. The key at the end of the volume will be found of service in identifying unfamiliar mammals, and includes certain characters omitted from the body of the book. As a guide to further study there has been appended a bibliography of the principal works on North American mammals. To many of these I would express my indebtedness, especially to the writings of Allen, Merriam. Miller, Bangs and Rhoads, and also my acknowledgments to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads for the privilege of studying the specimens contained in their collections. The text figures are all reproduced from standard works, while the plates are largely from the brush or camera of Mr. A. Radelyffe Dugmore, whose name is so intimately connected with illustrations of nature. The publishers wish to acknowledge the many courtesies and the helpful cooperation of the New York Zoological Society and its Director, Wm. T. Hornaday, Esq.; many of the photographs made at the Zoological Park could not have been secured elsewhere. The same is true of the Washington Zoological Park, in which Mr. Dugmore made a number of pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.