viii. 
209 species and 8 well marked varieties in the present list, but 
several of those entered in the former list as good species, or at 
least as good species with a query, are here treated as varieties 
or synonyms of other species. 
Tf this little work should in any degree draw the attention of 
some at least of those who are fortunate enough to live in the 
country districts, to the extraordinary richness and the marvellous 
forms of mammalian life, of which the land of their birth or their 
adoption is the home, the author’s aspirations will have been 
amply fulfilled. 
With two of the Orders of the Eutherian Mammals, the CeracEa 
and the Ropent1A, the want of material and of works of reference, 
and, more especially among the J/uride, the multiplication of 
species and the number of species insufficiently described, have 
made the task exceptionally difficult, and the author, therefore, 
trusts that any shortcomings in these Orders will be leniently 
dealt with. 
The work has been compiled from various sources, the chief 
of which are the British Museum Catalogues of Messrs. Thomas, 
Dobson, and Gray, the different articles relating to Mammals in 
the Encyclopedia Britannica, especially that under the heading 
“MamMALIA” by Professor Flower; but numerous other works 
and papers by the same authors, as well as by Owen, Huxley, 
Mivart, Allen, Scott, Stirling, and others have been consulted 
and freely drawn from. 
In conclusion, I have to tender my best thanks to many 
friends, in Zoology chiefly to Dr. Ramsay, and in Paleontology 
to Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr., for valuable hints received and 
acted on. 
J. Douauas OGILBY. 
