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OF

NATURAL HISTORY,

EXHIBITING FIGURES OF

QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS, &c.
Most of which have not, till now, been either Figured or Described.

WITH

DESCRIPTIONS of one hundred different SUBJECTS,
Defigned, Engraved, and Coloured after NATURE,

On FIFTY COPPER-PLATE PRINTS.

PART II.

BY

GEORGE EDWARDS,

FELLOW of the ROYAL SOCIETY, and of the SOCIETY of
ANTIQUARIES, LONDON.

LONDON:

Printed for the AUTHOR, at the ROYAL COLLEGE oF PHYSICIANS,
in WARWICK-LANE.

D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE,

CONSISTANT EN FIGURES DE

QUADRUPEDES, OISEAUX, POISSONS
INSECTES, PLANTES, &c.
C.

Dont on n'avoit point encore eu, pour la plupart, de DESSEINS,
ou d'EXPLICATIONS;

AVEC

Les DESCRIPTIONS de cent différents SUJETS,
Deffinés, Gravés, et Coloriés d'après NATURE,

En CINQUANTE PLANCHES

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Membre de la Société Royale, et de celle des Antiquaires, de Londres :

Et traduit de l'Anglois

Par J. DU PLESSIS, Miniftre du S. E.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN STEWART.

EARL OF BUTE,

LORD MOUNT-STEWART,

KNIGHT of the Noble Order of the THISTLE,

GROOM of the STOLE to His Royal Highness the
PRINCE OF WALES, &c.

MY LORD,

F

ORGIVE my prefumption in placing Your

Honourable Name in the front of this Second Part

of my Gleanings of Natural History, without Your
knowledge or confent: It is Your Lordship's great love

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of, and encouragement given to Natural History, that has emboldened me to lay this little Effay at Your feet, being well affured of Your Lordship's goodness in protecting all who fincerely endeavour, with strict truth, to bring new and undiscovered fubjects in Nature to light.

We have good reason to hope, that His Majefty's late glorious and many Conquefts over His and the Nation's enemies, will lay the foundation of a lafting peace, and add repose to the latter part of His Majefty's reign, and fecurity to future times, wherein Learning, Arts, and Commerce may flourish to their highest degree.

I flatter myself with hopes that (when I am no more) the rifing generation will find a powerful patron to all kinds of useful, polite and curious ftudies, as well as to the fine Arts, fince His Royal Highness the Prince has given fuch fignal proofs of fine tafte and genius for the Sciences: And I am confident your Lordship will take

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