Excerpt from Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys In the groups given there is no attempt made at any very scientific arrangement. The sketches are purely of a popular character, even the scientific nomenclature being avoided. It is hoped, however, that they may prove of service to the zoological tyro, and form as it were his first stepping-stone to a higher order of classi fication. In reality, notwithstanding the prodigious specula tions of learned anatomists, no truly good arrangement of the Mammalia has yet been arrived at; the defi ciency arising from the fact that, as yet, no true zoologist has had the opportunity of a sufficiently ex tended observation of the natural habits of animals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.