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Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

Chapter 10: Respectfully Dedicated
By Robert Armitage Sterndale
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A comprehensive, popular manual surveying the mammals of India, Ceylon and neighbouring regions, organized taxonomically from primates and bats through carnivores, ungulates, rodents and insectivores. Entries combine concise physical descriptions, habitat and geographic range, habits and behavior, and often anecdotal field observations and hunting notes drawn from the author's experience and contemporary sources. Numerous illustrations accompany the descriptive accounts to aid identification, and the narrative emphasizes accessible, conversational exposition intended for naturalists and sportsmen while widening coverage beyond peninsula-focused references.

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Title: Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

Author: Robert Armitage Sterndale

Release date: October 16, 2006 [eBook #19550]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Ron Swanson

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON ***
FELIS TIGRIS.




NATURAL HISTORY

OF THE

MAMMALIA OF INDIA

AND CEYLON.





BY

ROBERT A. STERNDALE,

F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., &c.,

AUTHOR OF "THE DENIZENS OF THE JUNGLE;" "THE AFGHAN KNIFE;"
"SEONEE, OR CAMP LIFE IN THE SATPURA RANGE," ETC.




WITH 170 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR, T. W. WOOD,
AND OTHERS.




CALCUTTA:

THACKER, SPINK, AND CO.
BOMBAY: THACKER AND CO., LIMITED.
LONDON: W. THACKER AND CO.

1884.





LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.




THIS

POPULAR

HISTORY OF OUR INDIAN MAMMALS

IS

Respectfully Dedicated

(BY PERMISSION)

TO ONE WHO TAKES A DEEP INTEREST IN ALL THAT
CONCERNS OUR EASTERN EMPIRE,

THE RIGHT HON.

THE EARL OF NORTHBROOK, G.C.S.I.,

LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND VICEROY OF INDIA.




PREFACE.


This work is designed to meet an existing want, viz.: a popular manual of Indian Mammalia. At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North. The geographical limits of the present work have been extended to all territories likely to be reached by the sportsman from India, thus greatly enlarging the field of its usefulness.

The stiff formality of the compiled "Natural Histories" has been discarded, and the Author has endeavoured to present, in interesting conversational and often anecdotal style, the results of experience by himself and his personal friends; at the same time freely availing himself of all the known authorities upon the subject.





CONTENTS.