INTRODUCTION. 



A Classification of Animals from the point of view 

 of Economic Zoology. 



Geoup a. — Animals captured or slaughtered by man for food, or for 

 the use by him in other ways, of their skin, bone, fat, or 

 other products. 



Examples. — Animals of tlie chase ; food-j&shes ; whales ; 

 pearl-mussels. 



Group B. — Animals Ired or cultivated by man for food or for the use of 

 their products in industry or for their services as living 

 things. 



Examples. — Flocks and herds ; horses ; dogs, poultry ; 

 gold-fish ; bees ; silkworms and leeches. 



Group C. — Animals which directly promote man's operations as a civilised 

 being without being killed, captured or trained by him. 



Examples. — Scavengers such as vultures ; carrion-feeding 

 insects ; earthworms and flower-fertilizing insects. 



Group I). — Animals which concern man as causing bodily injury, some- 

 times death, to him, and in other cases disease, often of a 

 deadly character. 



Examples. — Lions ; wolves ; snakes ; stinging and parasitic 

 insects ; disease germ -carriers, as flies and mosquitoes ; 

 parasitic worms ; parasitic protozoa. 



Group E. — Animals which concern man as causing bodily injury or 

 disease (both possibly of a deadly character) to {A), his stock 

 of domesticated animals ; or {B), to his vegetable plantations ; 

 or (6'), to wild animals in the preservation of which he is 

 interested ; or {D), wild plants in the preservation of which 

 he is interested. 



Examides. — Similar to those of Group D, but also insects 

 and worms which destroy crops, fruit and forest trees, and 

 pests such as frugivorous birds, rabbits and voles. 



