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has been entrusted to Professor Ramsay Wright, Professor of Biology at Toronto _ 
University, whose name is a sufficient guarantee that what he has wre upon 4 
the subject is reliable. bee : 
The illustrations which accompany the descriptions will be found valent 
may be depended upon as being strictly accurate. Many of them have been — 
taken from life, whilst the remainder have been photographed from mounte od 
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specimens found in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D.C., and in other 
well-known museums. | Be 
The compilers of these papers lay no claim whatever to originality, but he ii 
copied freely from the best works obtainable, in order that the habits of .t th a 
animals referred to might be set forth correctly. Amongst the ror copied — 
from are: i 
Baira’s North American Mammals. 
Hallock’s Sportsmen’s Gazeteer. 
Cassel’s Natural History. 
Wood’s Natural History. 
Wild Animals, by J. Fortuné Nott. 
Whilst the valuable essays from the pen of Mr. W. P. Lett of Ottawa, haved 
also furnished much valuable information. 
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The advice of many well-known trappers and hunters has also been obtained, sb | 
ana it is hoped, er that the papers may prove both interesting and — 
instructive. 
In giving the dimensions of the various animals described, an average has a 
been struck ; many specimens of the animals mentioned are larger in proportions — 
than the figures here indicate, while others are correspondingly smaller, but the © 
figures given will suffice for the purpose for which the papers are intended. phi 
