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gpaco at our disjKtfwil for thi* exliil>itiou of RjKJcimena relating to the 

 snhjtvt of Ki-oiioinic Zoolosry, we liiid it siitHrifiit to diKtiii<fiiish in ca<-|j 

 <:n)up or siMuUiT division the " Hritish " mid the " Kxini-Hritish " aniiniiN. 

 All auinial once cstuldisht'd as an inhabitant of liritain we shall consider 

 as Hritish, wlu'lher it is of foreii,'u importation or long established as an 

 inhabitjint of these islands. 



G II U P A. 



Animals Captured or Slaughtered by Man for Food, or for the 

 use by him, in other ways, of their Skin, Bone, Fat, or 

 other Products. 



This 1,'roui) includes those animals having the most ]»rimitive and 

 direct relation to man, those which he hunts and captures or kills. 



I'erim|>s the relation of some (liut not all) of those anima's whi<h 

 infest or attack the bodv of uncivilised man niav Ik.' regarded as e«|U:illv 

 primitive, that is to say, the relations are free from the complicating 

 circumstances of the civili.sjition of great communities of mankinil. 



It is not desirable in a general Museum of Natural History to brim: 

 together a special series of these animals of the chase or fishery. Tiiey 

 are best seen and are fully represented in the general galleries of the 

 Mu.seum. Here they may Ik; roughly enunKTate<l. According to locality 

 ami circumstauc'. almost any animal may become the source of food or of 

 economic products to this or that race of man. In the list given Kdow 

 those animals only are cited which are regularly and hal)itually pursued 

 by man, either for the purposes of procuring thera for foo<l or as the 

 source of economic products. 



We divide the group into two sub-groups. 



(rt) Animals pursued for food. 



(i) Animals pursued for their economic products. 



SrnvKv OF Sl'b-guol'I' («) ok Gimrr A. 



ANIM.\LS PURSUED FOR FOOD. 



Protoso* None. 



Porifora None. 



Ckclcntora Sea anemones (cul do mulcO ara to bo soon in most 



French fish mn- ii Sicily, Trieste. 



and Istrift {Ac:. 

 Echinodcrmn V.chxnun (sea urcijins), the ovaric* of vari-ius specie's in 



all parts of the world, especially in the West Indies 



and .\driatic Coast. 

 Holothunnus, known as "Ik"' ' • — " or " tropanR," 



arn dric<l and cooked by t: NeapolitAus and 



Platyholmia < ^tapeworms) arc oaten by tbo Chi I'sr. 



Nenjcrtina .. None. 



Ncniato<la None. 



Cboitopoda Palolo worms {Kunice) arc eaten in the Sunoftn Islands 



in largo quantities. 



