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Heller's descrip- 

 tions of the animals 

 are clearly stated, 

 easily understood, 

 and may be regarded 

 as models of their 

 kind. The matter re- 

 lating to geographic 

 ranges has been writ- 

 ten from the vantage 

 ground of familiarity 

 with the species both 

 in life and in lit- 

 erature, and the text 

 is supplemented by 

 a series of maps 

 showing graphically 

 the areas inhabited. 

 There are no fewer 

 than forty of these 

 maps, constituting, it 

 is hardly necessary to 

 add, a most valuable 

 feature of the work. 



Another commendal)le feature is the 

 ■publication of tiie native names of the 

 animals in the languages of several tribes. 

 These names sooner or later are sure to 

 be of a.ssistance to ethnologists and are 

 likely to be the means of avoiding errors 

 in the transcription of animal myths and 

 tales, for unhappily, ethnologists are 

 seldom naturalists. 



Heller has enjoyed rare opportunities 

 and has accomplished what no other 

 naturalist ever attempted; for in addi- 

 tion to the six hundred specimens of some 

 seventy species brought back by the 

 expedition, he has studied the W. L. 

 Abbott and Paul Rainey African collec- 

 tions in our National Museum, the col- 

 lections of the American Museum of 



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From McCulcheon's In Africa 

 By courtesy Bohbs-Merrill Company 



Writing his adventures while they're hoi ' 



Natural History in New York, the Field 

 Museum in Chicago, the Powell-Cotton 

 collection in England, and the rich col- 

 lections in the national museums of Great 

 Britain, Germany, Belgium and France. 

 In comprehensiveness, thoroughness, 

 popular interest, and in the scientific 

 value of its contril)utions to knowledge, 

 the Life Hisiories of African Game A?ii- 

 mals is far and away the best book ever 

 written on the big-game animals of any 

 part of the world. 



' The cartoons from J. T. McCutcheon's In Africa 

 were chosen by the Editor to give, in the first and 

 second, a flavor of the African camp, and in the third, 

 to emphasize one of the most important principles in 

 all natural history field work, namely — that for the 

 sake of accuracy, observations should be recorded at 

 the moment they are made, or at least "while they're 

 hot." 



