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THE author occupied his time, while a prisoner of war in Turkey, in collecting and observing the animals near his camp. Since his release, he has employed his leisure in a similar study of the mammals of Ceylon. A catalogue issued by a great museum enumerates all the species of the organisms belonging to a few or a single family, and is founded necessarily on the specimens in its own and in other museums; it is hence largely morphological and classificatory. In contrast a local’ monograph such as this requires of its reader a certain acquaintance with the locality and its environments, and lays its main stress on the adaptation of the described species to these.
Manual of the Mammals of Ceylon
By W. W. A. Phillips. Pp. xxvii + 373 + 38 plates. (Colombo: Colombo Museum; London: Dulau and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 10 rupees; 15s.
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Manual of the Mammals of Ceylon. Nature 137, 968 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137968a0
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