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Excerpt from The Origin and Relationship of the Large Mammals of North America
The higher fauna of North America, when compared with that of other large continents, presents an astonishing poverty, as to the number both of genera and of species, and the latter are, in the great majority of cases, very closely allied to Old World forms. 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.
