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Frank Buckland); Mr. John Grant (Thirteen Years Among the Wild 

 Beasts of India, by G. P. Sanderson); Mr. H. Wingfield ("Allen's 

 Naturalists' Library "), and Mr. Edward G. Fairholme, Secretary of 

 the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for 

 permission to make extracts from various articles which appeared 

 in The Animal World. 



I also wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the writings of 

 Mr. Frank Finn, Dr. Henry O. Forbes, Mr. R. Lydekker, and Mr. 

 Ernest Protheroe. 



To Mr. C. S. Cooper, F.R.H.S., and Mr. W. S. Berridge, 

 F.Z.S., I wish to convey grateful thanks for assistance in reading 

 the proofs, and especially to Mr. Charles Barrett, M.A.O.U., of 

 Melbourne, for his chapter on the Mammals of Australia, and to the 

 Rev. Charles A. Hall of Paisley, who very kindly contributed the 

 section entitled "Animals of Long Ago." 



Lastly, to the intrepid big-game hunter, Mr. F. C. Selous, I am 

 under an obligation for permission to make free use of the works 

 written by him which have done so much to enrich our knowledge 

 of the fauna of the great African Continent. 



W. PERCIVAL WESTELL. 



Letchivorth, Hertfordshire^ 

 England, 



Autumn^ 



