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PREFACE, 
It is still the author’s intention to proceed farther in the exe- 
cution' of the task which he has undertaken, and to communi- 
cate to the public a description of the remaining tribes of Bri- 
tish Animals. In the mean time, he trusts that the present 
work, with all its imperfections, will increase the facilities of 
the student of British Zoology, and probably be the means of 
exciting those who are in possession of more accurate informa- 
tion to reveal their success to the public. Becollecting the dif- 
ficulties which occurred to himself in the discrimination of spe- 
cies, the author has, in the course of his work, studied simpli- 
city, precision, and brevity, that he might contribute to remove 
obstacles to an acquaintance with a science which has long 
yielded him gratifying instruction and amusement, and present- 
ed so frequently to his notice the brightest exhibitions of the 
wisdom of his Maker, 
Manse of Flisk, 1 
J>eQemher 18?7- J 
