THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. I.) 1210 co 9 DB oa [No. 16. 
THE MAMMALS OF SHAKSPEARE. 
By Henry Reexs, F.L.S., F.Z.8. 
Ow1ne chiefly to a perusal of the interesting articles on “ The 
Birds of Shakspeare,” which appeared many years ago in ‘ The 
Zoologist, and which have since been reprinted in a separate 
form with numerous additions,* I have been induced to go 
carefully through the voluminous writings of that “ myriad- 
minded man,” as Coleridge aptly terms the Bard of Avon, in 
search of what I felt sure of finding, viz., numerous references to 
animals—true /ere nature. 
Domestic animals are repeatedly alluded to by Shakspeare ; but 
in the following pages I have not thought it necessary to make any 
extracts relating to them. 
Many animals are mentioned the species of which it is impossible 
to identify ; and a few—especially among the numerous and widely- 
spread families of Monkeys—cannot be referred with certainty even 
to a particular genus. ; 
I have not the benefit of libraries at hand for reference, still I 
trust the following remarks, from purely Shakspearian associations, 
may prove interesting to at least some of the readers of ‘The 
Zoologist.’ 
It is only fair to state that Mr. Harting, in the “ Introduction” 
to his more extended work on the ‘ Ornithology of Shakspeare,’ 
mentions many of the animals—in fact, nearly all the British 
* ‘The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained and Illus- 
trated.’ By J. E. Harting. London; Van Voorst. 1871. 
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