PREFACE 
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THE design of the Fur and Feather Series is 
to present monographs, as complete as they can 
possibly be made, on the various English birds 
and beasts which are generally included under 
the head of Game. 
Books on Natural History cover such a vast 
number of subjects that their writers necessarily 
find it impossible to deal with each in a really 
comprehensive manner; and it is not within 
the scope of such works exhaustively to discuss 
the animals described, in the light of objects 
of sport. Books on sport, again, seldom treat at 
length of the Natural History of the furred and 
feathered creatures which are shot or otherwise 
taken ; and, so far as the Editor is aware, in nc 
book hitherto published on Natural History or 
Sport has information been given as to the best 
methods of turning the contents of the bag to 
account. 
