A Classification of Animals from the point of view 

 of Economic Zoology. 



Group A. — Animals captured or slamihtered by man for food, or for 

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

 other products. 



Examples. — Animals of the chase ; food-fishes ; whales ; 

 pearl-mussels. 



Group 1>. — Animals bred or cultivated by man for food or for the use of 

 their products in industry or for their services as livint;' 

 thing's. 



Examples. — Flocks and herds ; horses ; dogs ; ])oultry ; 

 gold-fish ; bees ; silkworms and leeches. 



Group ('. — 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 llower-fertilizing insects. 



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

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

 deadly character. 



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

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

 parasitic worms ; parasitic protozoa. 



Group R. — Animals which concern man as caiLsing bodily injury or 

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

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

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

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

 he is interested. 



Examples. — 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. 



(J roup V. — Animals which concern man as being destructive to his 

 worked up products of art and industry, such as {A) his 

 various works, buildings, larger constructions and habitations ; 

 {B) furniture, books, drapery and clothing ; (C) his food and 

 his stores. 



Examples. — White ants ; wood-eating larvai ; clothes 

 moths, weevils, acari and marine borers. 



(iRoi'P (I.— Animals which ai-e known as "beneficials" on account of 

 their l)eing destructive to or che(;king the increase of tin- 

 injnrious animals classed under Gi-oups D, E and l'\ 



Exatnples. — Certain carnivorous and insectivorous birds, 

 reptiles and amphibia ; parasitic and iiredaceous insects, 

 acari, niyriapoda, etc. 



