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Excerpt from The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet: Being a New and Revised Edition of 'the Great and Small Game of India, Burma, and Tibet' Seven years have elapsed since the publication of the original quarto edition of this work, which is now out of print. During that interval considerable progress has been made in the recognition of local races of many of the animals described therein; some of these races, such as the Shan brown bear and the Tibetan bruan, adding very largely to the geographical range of the species. Another important addition to our knowledge is the occurrence of a goral in Burma. Descriptions of these newly recognised forms, together with much other important information, have been incorporated in the present edition, which has thus been brought thoroughly up to date. Another innovation is the inclusion of the Malay Peninsula, which is now an integral portion of the British Empire, in the area coming within the purview of the volume. In its present smaller and cheaper form the work will be found more convenient to the sportsman in the field than the original edition. Since the text was in type I have had an opportunity of seeing the head and neck of the red serow, an animal which has never previously come under my notice. 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.