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publications. His Deer of all Lands, his Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 

 his Game Animals of Africa, his Game Animals of India, his Great 

 and Small Game of Europe, Asia, and America, and his Sportsman's 

 British Bird Booh are all of good repute. The Horse and its Relatives, 

 The Ox and its Kindred, and The Sheep and its Cousins are as well 

 and widely known. His Handbooks to the Carnivora, the Marsupials, 

 and the British Mammals are in every naturalist's library, as are most 

 of his collections of miscellaneous papers. His graphic essays on the 

 various animals in Animal Portraiture are models of clear writing and 

 compact expression, and, like the rest of his work, not mere repetitions 

 of what he learnt in his youth, for he learnt all along and was always 

 abreast of his time. He contributed many articles to the new edition 

 of the Encyclopedia Britannica and to other books of reference, and 

 last, but by no means least, he edited, and wrote by far the greater part 

 of, The Royal Natural History, in which the animals are described in 

 the order of their relationships, while in this companion work they are 

 dealt with from the point of view of their homes and range. 



