Unedited, unabridged, original format editions with original colored cover art, these Henty books reproduce the original in careful detail. This is a series of short essays about various animals with tongue-in-cheek derisions of human interactions with them, their own personalities, and some of the extant myths about their origins including Darwinianism. These are not historical novels, and they display some of the author's prejudices about people and their behavior.
This book is part of the Non-Fiction Books series and is book #2 in the series.