THE FIELD VOLE 



ERRATUM. 



PAGE 37. The number of wrist bones should be eight and nine, as correctly stated on page 49. 



PREFACE 



rilHERE appears to bo no limit to the demand for popular works on 

 Natural History in these days, especially if they be accompanied by well- 

 executed Illustrations. There can be little doubt, therefore, that The Royal 

 Natural History will meet with a favourable reception, and, so far as I am 

 acquainted with it, I have great confidence in commending it to my brother 

 naturalists. 



The text has been planned in such a way as to render it available not only 

 for general information about the objects described in it, but also as a guide 

 to their classification ; and on such lines it will indeed be of priceless value to the 

 travelling naturalist and to the resident in foreign countries. Applications for 



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