Abstract
THIS collection of articles from various magazines may be recommended to observers, and especially to young observers, of North American life. It contains a good deal of information, is written in an easy style, and bears frequent marks of personal familiarity with the animals described. A foreigner, visiting the United States for the first time, would pick up from this book, very rapidly and pleasantly, such knowledge of the commoner quadrupeds as he might extract from a well-informed naturalist, native to the country, in two or three weeks. The author has the habit of inquiry, and this renders his book particularly fit for young people, who may hope to fall in with grey squirrels, Canadian porcupines, skunks, racoons and wood-chucks. Perhaps the chapter on the “Badger and his kin” might leave the impression that shrews and moles are near relatives of the badger. “Animal training and animal intelligence” is a little bookish; and the performing elephants, &c, have little to do with the main subject. But these are trifles. The book is good of its kind.
Wild Neighbours: Out-door Studies in the United States.
By Ernest Ingersoll. Pp. viii + 301. Woodcuts. (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.)
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M., L. Wild Neighbours: Out-door Studies in the United States. Nature 56, 565 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056565d0
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