NOTES AND LITERATURE 



Seton's "Life Histories of Northern Animals." 1 — Mr. Seton is 

 widely known to the general public as a lecturer on wild animals 

 and as the author of several popular works on the same subject, 

 of which his "Wild Animals I have Known" is the type, wherein 

 the life of the species is personified in the history of an individ- 

 ual representative, as in "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw," 

 "Silverspot, the Story of a Crow," "Raggylug, the Story of a 

 Cottontail Rabbit," "The Winnipeg Wolf" and others. To his 

 fellow specialists he is also known as a naturalist of wide experi- 

 ence with bird and mammal life, a serious, conscientious and 

 zealous field observer, and the author of a number of strictly 

 scientific papers on the mammals and birds of Manitoba and 

 other parts of Canada. 



His equipment for the present undertaking is exceptional; in 

 addition to ability to express forcibly and concisely the results 

 of his observations, he has rare artistic talent, and a field ex- 

 perience of some thirty years. eoverin«r widely separated districts 

 in the United States and Canada. His sketches from life of the 

 poses of animals, his diagrams and plans of the underground 

 habitations of burrowing species, his delineations of tracks, of 

 dens and other habitations, and of structural characters, in 

 addition to his excellent plates of the animals themselves, lend 

 greatly to the value and interest of the text. 



In the present work the popular writer's license is laid aside 

 for the plain every-day narrative of actual fact. As he states in 

 his preface, "This aims to be a book of popular Natural History 

 on a strictly scientific basis. ' ' Again he says : ' ' As this is a book 

 of Life histories or habits, I have occupied myself as little as 

 possible with anatomy, and have given only so much description 



14< Life Histories of Northern Animals: An Account of the Mammals of 

 Manitoba." By Ernest Thompson Seton, Naturalist to the Government of 

 Manitoba. With 68 maps and 560 drawings by the author. Published by 

 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, 1909. 2 vols., roy. 8vo. Vol. I, 



