PEKIN DEER IN SUMMER DRESS 



example of the -white spotted type of coloration to common among hcrbi-vorout mammalt 



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INTRODUCTION 



THE interest now taken 

 in Natural History is 

 wide-spread and intel- 

 ligent to a degree never known 

 before, and any publication that 

 purports to present the animal 

 world in a new and clearer 

 way is sure of a welcome, and 

 as wide an acceptance as it 

 deserves. 



Nothing is more essential 

 to the successful presentation 

 of animal life and habits than 

 good pictures. The universal 

 interest of the public in zoologi- 

 cal gardens, traveling menageries 

 and museums, the educational 

 value of which is more and more 

 strongly recognised, arises not 

 only from a natural curiosity, but 

 also from the need of seeing the 

 real creatures or their preserved 

 embodiments, in order properly 

 to understand and realise the 

 descriptions of animals and 



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NEGRO BOY AND APES 



An intereittng picture of a Negro toy, -with a young Chimpanzee (lef side of figure) 

 and young Orang-utan {right tide of figure) 



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