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Blue leather book cover with silver embossed Pine Marten sitting on a branch.


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


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PREFACE

It is unnecessary to say much by way of Preface to the presentvolume, the series of popular handbooks of which it forms partbeing so widely known to Nature-lovers. The same methodsof treatment that were followed in the previous volumes havebeen pursued here, though the smaller numbe

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