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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



Phelt by Ottomar jfnichiitx] 



[Btrlin 



AFRICAN LEOPARD 



had the pioneers of America or Africa 

 been able to take with them cameras, and, 

 instead of taking advantage of the tame- 

 ness of the game unused to the hunter, 

 which enabled them to kill it, sometimes, 

 with clubs, had gathered for us easily the 

 portraits of many an animal, perhaps in 

 flocks and herds, which have now disap- 

 peared ! It is one of the most important 

 functions of out-door photography, to-day, 

 to preserve for posterity a record of pass- 

 ing conditions and of diminishing species; 

 and a work like the present is of per- 

 manent interest, and will increase in 

 historical and bibliographical value as time 

 goes on. 



One by one in various parts of the 

 world within the last half a dozen years, 

 ingenious, energetic, and capable men and 



A n example of the black-spotted type of coloration so prevalent in 

 Carnivora 



women have overcome the obstacles, 

 and partly by great patience and skill, 

 and partly by seizing happy chances, have 

 captured and preserved for us the por- 

 traits of a host of animals of every sort. 

 It is these which have now been gathered 

 to illustrate, in a comprehensive and orig- 

 inal manner this new general history of 

 the Living Animals of the World, mam- 

 mals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and lowly life 

 of land and sea. 



It is no disparagement of its often 

 excellent predecessors to say that in its 

 illustrations, at least, this work surpasses 

 anything that has gone before it, since no 

 previous publication could have presented 

 its pictorial contents. The materials, in 

 respect to both pictures and written text, 

 have been gathered from the whole world, 



EAST AFRICAN GIRAFFE 



This photograph -was taken in the -wilds of Africa by Lord Delamerc, 



and shows the animal at home. The tree is a 



mimosa, on the top shoots of -which the 



giraffe habitually feeds 



