Transcriber's Notes
| A number of typographical errors were corrected in the text. | |||
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| Page | Original | Corrected to | Context |
| 34 | appearence | appearance | of singular appearance and interesting habit. |
| 42 | mammel | mammal | the smallest living mammal |
| 46 | suddently | suddenly | he came suddenly on a lion |
| 71 | desease | disease | specific against cattle disease |
| 74 | stic her dome | her domestic | genial warmth of her domestic hearth |
| 79 | is | its | In its pure state |
| 79 | its | is | perfume is agreeable |
| 87 | inhabitated | inhabited | proximity to inhabited dwellings |
| 114 | canis | Canis | Canis domesticus |
| 125 | formally | formerly | less needed now than formerly |
| 188 | Hippotamus | Hippopotamus | The Hippopotamus is gregarious |
| 249 | if | of | one of the most |
| 255 | acccording | according | according to Mrs. Bowdich |
| 354 | vocacious | voracious | They are extremely voracious |
| 362 | appropiate | appropriate | It will attack, and appropriate |
| Some words occur with and without hyphenation in the text. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyphenated | Instances | Unhyphenated | Instances |
| bed-room | 1 | bedroom | 5 |
| blood-hound | 1 | bloodhound | 3 |
| Blood-hound | 1 | Bloodhound | 6 |
| cat-like | 2 | catlike | 2 |
| eye-witness | 2 | eyewitness | 1 |
| farm-house | 1 | farmhouse | 1 |
| fore-feet | 2 | forefeet | 1 |
| fore-noon | 1 | forenoon | 2 |
| fore-paw | 1 | forepaw | 1 |
| fore-paws | 2 | forepaws | 1 |
| Fox-hound | 3 | Foxhound | 1 |
| fox-hound | 2 | foxhound | 1 |
| Goat-sucker | 1 | Goatsucker | 1 |
| gun-shot | 1 | gunshot | 1 |
| hedge-hog | 1 | hedgehog | 9 |
| hind-quarters | 1 | hindquarters | 1 |
| mid-day | 2 | midday | 1 |
| off-spring | 1 | offspring | 10 |
| re-discovered | 1 | rediscovered | 1 |
| road-side | 2 | roadside | 2 |
| sand-banks | 1 | sandbanks | 1 |
| sea-side | 1 | seaside | 1 |
| tortoise-shell | 1 | tortoiseshell | 1 |
| Some words occur with and without ligatures in the text. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ligature | Instances | No Ligature | Instances |
| Cebidae | 1 | Cebidæ | 7 |
| Corvidae | 1 | Corvidæ | 1 |
| Cotingidae | 1 | Cotingidæ | 1 |
Both "M. d'Obsonville" and "M. D'Obsonville" occur on page 99.