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Published by Simon and Schuster, Rockefeller Center, 630 Fifth A venue, New York, New York 10020. AH rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Foreword copyright 1962 by the American Museum of Natural History Text copyright 1961 by Colin M. Turnbull Third Printing Certain of the photographs in this book have appeared previously in Natural History, the journal of the American Museum of Natural History. The author and the publishers gratefully acknowledge the permission of Natural History to republish these photographs here.
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