The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District

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Excerpt from The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District: With Records of Occurrences of the Rarer Species Throughout the South-East of Scotland Generally The late Mr E. R. Alston, in the closing sentences of his Catalogue of the Mammalia of Scotland, 1 pointed out to Scottish naturalists that the distribution of the mammalian life of the country was much in need of revision, and cited the Shrews, Mice, and Voles as especially deserving of attention. Impressed with the truth of his remarks, I have been endeavouring during the last few years to work out in some degree of detail the distribution in our own neigh bourhood of the above-mentioned groups, and also of the Bats, which had been equally neglected. My original intention was to communicate to the Royal Physical Society the results of my observations on these groups alone. Being, however, also in possession of a mass of data bearing on the past and present distribution of the other recent animals of the class Mammalia occurring in the district, I ultimately decided to combine the two sets of notes, and lay them before the Society in the present form. 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.