THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MAMMALS. Edited by Gordon B. Corbet and H.N. Southern.

(1964) 1977 2nd edition. Ppxxxii,520. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Colour printed pictorial cloth.

"The second edition of this well-known and authoritative work has been eagerly awaited for many years. The book has undergone considerable change and has been completely revised. It now consists largely of a comprehensive account of the British mammals and provides full descriptions of all species at present found in Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the adjacent seas, including well-established introductions and more briefly ...occasional vagrants and species that have become extinct in historic times. As an aid to identification it is a reference of fundamental importance to both the professional zoologist and the amateur naturalist".