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When the history of the twentieth country comes to be written, one of the features which will doubtless be recorded will be the growth of interest in the fate of the wild life of the world among the peoples influenced by what is usually termed "Western Civilization". The spirit of what our American friends call "conservation of wild life" was born none too soon, and they deserve great credit for being the first people to dedicate large areas ...
Seven years have elapsed since the publication of the original quarto edition of this work, which is how out of print. During that interval considerable progress has been made in the recognition of local races of many of the animals described therein; some of these races, such as the Shan brown bear and the Tibetan bruan, adding very largely to the geographical range of the species. Another important addition to our knowledge is the occurrence of a goral in ...