The Philippine Journal Of Science, 1912, Vol. 7

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Excerpt from The Philippine Journal Of Science, 1912, Vol. 7: Section D, General Biology, Ethnology And Anthropology The key to the families is purely artificial, and is based on Philippine species only. Easily discerned characters, chie¿y external, or at least conspicuous in freshly-killed examples, are used whenever possible. It has been the chief aim. To avoid technicalities as much as possible without destroying the work ing value of the key, that it may be serviceable to sportsmen and travelers, without special study of mammalian structure. The key refers to the pages in the list proper where the genera and species of the family are listed, and under each genus is given a brief synopsis of characters common to all the Philippine species. TO make them more serviceable, by the use of the most conspicuous characters, these generic diagnoses, like the key itself, are based solely on Philippine species and are not intended for use outside the Islands. Many characters used Will fail in species from 0ther regions. The list proper is supposed to contain all the speciesdescribed from or reported from the Islands, with a reference to the original description, the present generic combination, and all synonyms with type-localities in the Philippines. After this, is given the type-locality of the recog nized form and a list of the islands from which it has been recorded in literature, with an authority for each record. After the list proper is a Hypothetical list of species apparently erroneously reported from the Islands by Casto de Elera, a list of type-localities in the Philippines, and a bibliography of papers dealing with Philippine mammalogy. The time has not yet come to write more than a preliminary list of Philippine mammal names, and not until a thorough sur vey of the Islands is made, topotypes of all described forms assembled, and general collecting carried on in all localities, will it be possible to prepare a real manual of Philippine mammals. 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.