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a pleasure in preserving by photography what he finds to interest him in his wanderings in the open. To such this book appeals with a peculiar force, for the author is evidently at once familiar with wood and field life and an adept with the camera."--_Boston Transcript._ Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist is in THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN LIBRARY SERIES The other volumes in the series are _The American Thoroughbred_, _American Yachting_, _Bass, Pike, Perch, and other Fish_, _Big Game Fishes of the United States_, _The Deer Family_, _Guns, Ammunition, and Tackle_, _Lawn Tennis and Lacrosse_, _Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep, and Goat_, _Riding and Driving_, _Rowing and Track Athletics_, _Salmon and Trout_, _The Sporting Dog_, _The Trotting and the Pacing Horse_, _Upland Game Birds_, _and The Water Fowl Family_. The price of each volume is $2.00 net. PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York Ernest Ingersoll's LIFE OF ANIMALS: THE MAMMALS _Colored Plates and Photographic Illustrations_ _Cloth 8vo $2.00 net_ "Bountifully illustrated with new colored plates drawn and painted by the author's daughter, and with more than a hundred photographs, many of them taken by the author himself, the text of the volume gives a succinct and lucid account of the life of the mammals,... their ancestry, their place in nature, their means of livelihood, and their general characteristics."--_New York Herald._ "An exceedingly entertaining and informing book containing the latest information concerning the whole group of mammals, that branch of animal creation most interesting to man because he is one himself. There are numberless works on this topic or related ones, but we know of none that is so comprehensive as this in a single volume.... There is an amazing amount of information written simply but with authority. Every man, woman, and child who takes up this book will hate to put it down for a moment."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._ "There are pictures and anecdotes for the little ones of the family, adventures and curious habits to attract the eager minds of older lads, guiding information and suggestion for the student, and the whole is treated in the light of the latest facts. Many novelties, apart from the sim
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