PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY
INSECT-EATERS: MOLE, SHREWS, AND HEDGEHOG
FLYING MAMMALS: BATS
FLESH-EATERS: FOX, BADGER, OTTER, WEASELS, MARTENS, AND WILD CAT
GNAWING ANIMALS: RABBIT, HARES, DORMOUSE, VOLES, MICE, RATS, AND SQUIRRELS
HOOFED ANIMALS: RED DEER, FALLOW DEER, AND ROE DEER
LIZARDS AND SLOW-WORM
SNAKES
AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS: FROGS, TOADS, AND NEWTS
CLASSIFIED INDEX
INDEX
Transcriber's Note: Spelling has been harmonized. CONTENTS categories have been inserted in text.
- Two fox kits in burrow at base of tree.
- Young rabbit on grassy knoll with boulders.
THE WAYSIDE
AND WOODLAND
SERIES
ANIMAL LIFE
OF
THE BRITISH ISLES
Grey hedgehog approaching coiled brown snake. Rocky area with low vegetation.
Pl. 1][Frontispiece
Hedgehog preparing to attack Grass Snake.
ANIMAL LIFE
OF THE
BRITISH ISLES
A POCKET GUIDE TO THE
MAMMALS, REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS
OF WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND
BY
EDWARD STEP, F.L.S.
AUTHOR OF
"WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES"
"WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND BLOSSOMS," ETC., ETC.
WITH
111 PLATES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
INCLUDING 48 IN COLOUR
BY W. J. STOKOE
LONDON
FREDERICK WARNE & CO. LTD.
AND NEW YORK
1921
"The lusty life of wood and underwood,
. . . . . . . .
The tawny Squirrel vaulting through the boughs,
The Deer, the high-back'd Polecat, the Wild Boar,
The burrowing Badger."
Tennyson, The Foresters.
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
