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Popular Science Library
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
GARRETT P. SERVISS
AUTHORS
WILLIAM J. MILLER HIPPOLYTE GRUENER A. RUSSELL BOND
D. W. HERING LOOMIS HAVEMEYER ERNEST G. MARTIN
ARTHUR SELWYN-BROWN ROBERT CHENAULT GIVLER
ERNEST INGERSOLL WILFRED MASON BARTON
WILLIAM B. SCOTT ERNEST J. STREUBEL
NORMAN TAYLOR DAVID TODD
CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN
ROBIN BEACH
ARRANGED IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES
WITH A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, GLOSSARIES
AND A GENERAL INDEX
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME TWELVE
P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY
NEW YORK
Copyright 1922
By P. F. Collier & Son Company
MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.
ZOÖLOGY
The Science of Animal Life
BY
ERNEST INGERSOLL
P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY
NEW YORK
PREFACE
In this volume, occupying the place in the seriesassigned to the subject "Zoölogy," the writer wascalled upon to survey the whole range of animal lifeon the globe, and to keep in view the fact that thesebooks were to be a library of science. The casualreader, with no particular interest in natural history,seeks in such a book little more than stories ofanimal life thought of mainly as "big game," with anappetite for the adventurous and wonderful. Butbeasts and birds and snakes, although they numberin the aggregate thousands of kinds, are but fewcompared with the almost innumerable hosts of thelower orders of animal life that dwell in the wildernessesof the world, or throng in the seas, or hoverabout us in the air; yet they are a part of the zoölogyof the globe, and a most important part. Although