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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



room as is a dictionary or year- 

 book, since by its aid all reading 

 may be illuminated, and perchance 

 corrected, and the whole view of 

 nature enlightened and enlarged. 



ERNEST INGERSOLL. 



SOMALI ZEBRAS 



This is a photograph of a group of zebras taken in Africa, and gives some idea of 

 the surrounding country, -where they li-vc in happy freedom 



The special thanks of the Editor and 

 Publishers are due to a great many 

 naturalists and zoologists for the -valuable 

 help they have given to, and the interest 

 they have taken in, this work while it has 

 been in preparation. No doubt, before the 

 complete work is published, a great many 

 more names will be added to the list, but 

 meanwhile grateful acknowledgment should 

 be made to the following : Her Grace the 

 Duchess of Bedford, who has kindly allowed 

 many of her fine photographs to be repro- 

 duced in these pages ; the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, M. P., for the splendid collec- 

 tion of photographs taken especially for him 

 in all parts of the world; Lord Delamere, 

 for several unique photographs taken with 

 a telephoto lens during his celebrated ex- 

 pedition to Africa; Major Nott, F. Z. S., 

 for the use of his scientific series of animal 



photographs; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, of Washington, for many photographs of fish and other animals in their 



natural surroundings; Mr. W. Saville-Kent, F. Z. S., F. L. S., for the photographs taken by him while 



in Australia; Mr. Lewis Medland, F. Z. S., for the use of his singularly complete set of animal photographs; 



Herr Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, for permission 



to use his photographs of some extremely rare speci- 

 mens of animals which from time to time have found 



a temporary home at his wonderful Thierpark ; 



the Trustees of the British Museum, for permission 



to photograph some of their animals; Professor 



E. Ray Lankester, Director of the Natural History 



Branch of the British Museum; and the Zoological 



Society, for permission to photograph some of the 



animals. And also to Herr Ottomar Anschiits, 



of Berlin; Messrs. Bond fir- Grover, of the Scho- 

 lastic Photographic Co.; Signor Alinari, of Florence ; 



Messrs. Kerry fir* Co. and Mr. Henry King, of 



Sydney; Mr. Charles Knight; Mr. J. W. 



McLellan; Messrs. Charles and William Reid; 



Messrs. A. S. Rudland & Sons; and Messrs. 



York fr Sons, for permission to reproduce their 



photographs. 



Phttt b } Dr. R. W. Schufildt'] 



SUN-FISH 



[Washington 



This photograph -was taken through the -water by Dr. R. W. 

 who has made a speciality of this kind of photography 



