6 PREFACE. 



to Vernon Bailey and J. Ellis McLellan, Held agents of the division, for 

 many valuable notes. More than Ave hundred letters were written in 

 the course of the investigation, and thus a large amount of informa- 

 tion has been collected which could not otherwise have been obtained. 

 The statistics given in the last two chapters are only approximate, and 

 necessarily incomplete, but any corrections or additions will be wel- 

 comed, particularly in the case of the lists of rabbit drives, which it 

 is desirable to make as complete as possible. 



T. S. Palmer. 



