I acknowledge with gratitude the help I have received not only from my familybut also from my friends Reg Sones and Hal Summers, who read the book beforepublication and made valuable suggestions.
I also wish to thank warmly Mrs. Margaret Apps and Miss Miriam Hobbs, whotook pains with the typing and helped me very much.
I am indebted, for a knowledge of rabbits and their ways, to Mr. R. M.
Lockley's remarkable book, The Private Life of the Rabbit. Anyone who wishes toknow more about the migrations of yearlings, about pressing chin glands,chewing pellets, the effects of over-crowding in warrens, the phenomenon of re-absorption of fertilized embryos, the capacity of buck rabbits to fight stoats, orany other features of Lapine life, should refer to that definitive work.