W. Thacher Sf Co., London. 



A Natural History of the Mammalia of India, 



Burmali and Ceylon. By E. A. Steexdale, F.E.Gt.S., 

 r.Z.S., &c., Author of ^' Seonee," "The Denizens of the 

 Jungle," "The Afghan Knife," &c. With 170 Illustrations 

 by the Author and Others. In Imperial 16mo. Uniform 

 with "Eiding," " Hindu Mythology," and " Indian Ferns." 

 Es, 10. (12s. 6d.) 



" It is the very model of what a popular natural history should be." 

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'"An amusing work with good illustrations." — Nature. 



" Full of accurate observation, brightly told." — Saturday Review. 



" The results of a close and sympathetic observation." — Athenceum. 



" It has the brevity which is the soul of wit, and a delicacy of allusion 

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" The notices of each animal are, as a rule, short, though on some of the 

 larger mammals— the lion, tiger, pard, boar, &c. — ample and interesting 

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 will, no doubt, be specially useful to the sportsman, and, indeed, has been 

 extended so as to include all territories likely to be reached by the sports- 

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" Has contrived to hit a happy mean between the stiflf scientific treatise 

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Handbook to the Ferns of India, Ceylon, and 



the Malay Peninsula. By Colonel E. H. Beddome, Author 

 of the " Ferns of British Lidia," " The Ferns of Southern 

 India." Three hundred Illustrations by the Author. 

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" It is the first special book of portable size and moderate price which 

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