PRE Pa GCE, 
THIS work is designed to meet an existing want, viz.: a popular 
manual of Indian Mammalia. At present the only work of the 
kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, 
and which consequently omits the more interesting types 
found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries 
bordering the British Indian Empire on the North. The 
geographical limits of the present work have been extended to 
all territories likely to be reached by the sportsman from India, 
thus greatly enlarging the field of its usefulness. 
The stiff formality of the compiled “ Natural Histories” has 
been discarded, and the Author has endeavoured to present, in 
interesting conversational and often anecdotal style, the results 
of experience by himself and his personal friends ; at the same 
time freely availing himself of all the known authorities upon 
the subject. 
