PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
Reading edition
The present edition is a reprint of the first, with a few verbal corrections and the alteration of some erroneous or doubtful statements. Of these latter the following are the most important:—
P. 30. The statement as to the fulmar petrel, which Professor A. Newton assures me is erroneous, has been modified.
P. 34. A note is added as to Darwin's statement about the missel and song-thrushes in Scotland.
P. 172. An error as to the differently-coloured herds of cattle in the Falkland Islands, is corrected.
PARKSTONE, DORSET August, 1889.