Animal Life of the British Isles / A Pocket Guide to the Mammals, Reptiles and Batrachians of Wayside and Woodland

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Edward Step

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.

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.
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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.

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