nent has yet appeared, and no book like the present one 

 has ever been written. There are plenty of compilations 

 by closet naturalists about the large animals of different 

 regions, and a multitude of books on hunting and travel; 

 but in the present case two men have joined to do what 

 neither could have done separately, and the result is a 

 book which is a model of what should be done for all 

 other continents and also for the great West African forest 

 and the North African desert, neither of which is covered 

 by the present work. 



The volume contains photographs of almost every 

 species described; maps showing the distribution of each 

 species; photographs of the distinctive vegetation; and 

 also maps of the faunal areas and life-zones of east equa- 

 torial Africa. There are also drawings to illustrate the 

 wild life as it could not be illustrated by photographs. 



The life-histories of game animals offer an almost 

 virgin field for investigation and study. The present 

 treatise is a faithful account of what Messrs. Roosevelt 

 and Heller have themselves observed. It is a fuller ac- 

 count than has ever before been submitted on the subject. 

 But the authors themselves emphatically state that its 

 greatest value must lie in its being treated primarily as a 

 suggestion of what is still open for discovery in the vast 

 field that treats not only of the physical traits but of the 

 queer psychology of mammals and of the way in which 

 their life-habits are modified by their surroundings. Big- 

 game hunters who are more than illiterate game-butchers, 

 and faunal naturalists who realise that outdoor work is 

 at least as important to the scientist as work in the labora- 

 tory, and all inteUigent men who, without being scientists, 

 are interested in scientific matters as well as in the most 

 interesting, the hugest, and the most terrible of the beasts 

 of the chase will find in this book what cannot anywhere 

 else be found. 



CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS - New York 



