PREFACE 



THE design of the Fur and FcatJier Scries is to 

 present monographs, as complete as they can 

 possibly be made, on the various English birds 

 and beasts which arc generally included under 

 the head of Game. 



Books on Natural History cover such a vast 

 number of subjects that their writers necessarily 

 find it impossible to deal with each in a really 

 comprehensive manner ; and it is not within 

 the scope of such works exhaustively to discuss 

 the animals described, in the light of objects of 

 sport. Books on sport, again, seldom treat at 

 length of the Natural History of the furred and 

 feathered creatures which arc shot or otherwise 

 taken ; and, so far .as the Editor is aware, in no 

 book hitherto published on Natural History or 

 Sport has information been given as to the best 

 methods of turning the contents of the bag to 

 account. 



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