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more significance the Rabbit and Squirrel in Scotland, the 

 Rabbit, Weasel and Fox in Australia and New Zealand, the 

 Sparrow and Starling in many parts of the world pointing 

 a warning finger at the naturalist and reformer who, by in- 

 troducing animals would revise Nature's order, and' by short 

 cuts and unimaginative experiments tends to make a wilder- 

 ness where he had looked for a paradise. 



Fig. 54. Some Deliberate Introductions to Great Britain ; shown diagrammatically 

 associated with the country of their origin. Introductions which have died out or have 

 failed are indicated by an x . 



