Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World

Abstract

The present book is briefly noticed because of the relation of game animals and game extermination to tsetse flies. The volume consists of a relatively brief introduction which explains how the information has been collected and points out the great variety of factors which have caused the disappearance or increasing scarcity of many species of mammal in the Old World. It contains a chronological list showing the approximate dates (generally to a half-century) of disappearance for each continent separately. The greater part of the book consists of an account of many species arranged under Orders. Some of these species have disappeared or are in grave danger of doing so, but some of them, as it appears to us, are not at the moment greatly reduced or on the danger list. P. A. Buxton.