Excerpt from Animal Life in British GuianaThis volume is intended to be the first of a popular series on the Animal Life of British Guiana. It deals with the Mammals and Passerine Birds only, the latter including the great bulk as well as the com monest of the Colony Birds. During recent years while the writer was connected with the British Guiana Museum, he has been so frequently appealed to for information on the Natural History of the Colony, that it has seemed desirable to issue some such Work, in which in a popular and compact form such local information may be found. The work by no means aims at being complete, the more obvious features being chie¿y described. To have done otherwise would have necessitated volumes of quite a different character. Without technicalitv other than the giving of the scien tific names of the species which are necessary to make the work of any real value, it is hoped that it will be a record of interest as well to the general reader as to the student. If it so proves, the object of the writer Will have been attained, and other volumes willfollow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.