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to render the work acceptable to general readers, by devoting a large portion of it to lively and entertaining sketches of the habits and instincts of animals; and we have been indebted to a large number of books of travels, for many illustrative traits.

It has been remarked by an elegant writer, that “the pursuit of Natural History in almost any way, as a study or an amusement, is both gen- ,

and to be strictly true, and if the present volume shall be instrumental in diffusing a taste for knowledge, the influence of which is so salutary, we shall deem the labor bestowed upon the compilation as abundantly rewarded.

tleness, refinement, indicative and productive of

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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM,

CLASS FIRST_MAXMALIA,

Order First-Bimana,

Order Second-Quadrumana,

Gibbon, or Long-armed Apes

Miamon, of Pigtailed Baboon,

Magot, or Barbary Ape,

Pig-faced Baboon,

Warine and Alouato,

Sai, or Weeper,

Striated Monkey, or Ouistiti,

Red and Black Lemur,

Slow Lemur, or Bengal Loris,

Order Third-Cheiroptera,

Roussette, Rougette, or Spectre Bat,

Order Fourth-Fere,

Mole, or Camas Rat,

American Black Bear,

White or Polar Bear,

Large-lipped Bear,

European Badger,

Ermine, or Scoat,

Pine Marten, or Pine Weasel,

Ouer

Sark American Otier,

or Ounce,

Ocelot,

Lynx,

Canada Lynx,

Bay Lynx, or American 'wid Cat,

Caracal, or Siya-Gush,

Tiger Cat of Africa,

Domestic Cat,

Seal,

Greenland Seal,

Fetid Seal,

Sea Lion, or Elephant Seal,

Hooded Seal,

Ursine Seal, or Soa Bear,

Walrus, or Morse,

Order Finn-Marsupialia,

Virginia Opossum,

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Cayopollin, or Mexican Opossum,
Kanguroo,

Wombach,

Order Sixth-Glires,

Hudson's Bay Leming,

Fat Squirrel, or Dormouse,

Garden Dormouse,

Common Dormouse,

Labrador Jumping Mouse,

Parry's Marmot,

American Gray Squirrel,

American Flying Squirrel,

Severn River Flying Squirrel,

Conando, or Brazilian Porcupine,

Urson, or Canada Porcupine,

Cabiai,
Guinea Pig,
Agouti,

Paca, or Spotted Cary,
Order Seventh-Edentata,

Unau, and the Ai, or Sloth,
Six-banded Armadillo,
Great Ant Eater,
Tamandua,
Short-horned and long-tailed Manis,
Chlamyphorus,

Duck-billed Platypus,

Order Eighth-Pachydermata,

Asiatic Elephant,

Peccary, or Mexican Hog,

Collared, and White-lipped Peccary,

Tapir, or the Anta,

Dzhiggtai, or Wild Ass,
Zebra,
Zebra of the Plains,
Quagga,
Domestic Ass,

Mule,

Order Ninth-Ruminantia,

Camel and Dromedary,

Malayan Rusa Deer,

American Fallow Deer,

Canada Stag, or Wapiti,

Giraffe, or Camelopard,

Common Antelope,

Hart-beest, or Cape Stag,

Rocky Mountain Goat,

Rocky Mountain Sheep,

Argali, or Wild Sheep,

Corsican Argali,

Domestic Sheep,

Domestic Buffalo,

American Bison,

Order Tenth-Cetacea,

Round-tailed Manati,

Great-headed Cachalot,

Black-headed Spermaceti Whale,

Class Second.-Birds,

Order 1.-Rapaces,

Fulvous, or Griffin Vulture,

Sociable Vulture,

King of the Vultures,

American Carrion Vúlture,

Secretary Vulture,

Peregrine Falcon,

Ring-tailed Eagle,

American Fish-hawk,

Great Sea Eagle,

Washington Eagle,

White-headed, or Bald Eagle,

Chilian Sea Eagle,

Wedge-tailed Eagle,

Brazilian Caracara Eagle,

American Sparrow-hawk,

Swallow-tailed Hawk,

Common Buzzard,

Rough-legged Falcon,

Mississippi Kite,

Red-tailed Hawk,

American Buzzard,

European Horned Owl,

American Horned Owl,

White, or Barn Owl,

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Towhee-Bunting,

Scarlet Tanager, I.

Summer Red-bird,

American Crossbill,

Cardinal Grosbeak,

European Linnet,

American Linnet,

Chipping Sparrow,

European Goldfinch,

Order 1.-Zygodactylous Birds,

European Cuckoo, .

American Cuckoo,

Carolina Parrot,

Red-headed Woodpecker,

Ivory-billed Woodpecker,

Pileated Woodpecker,

Yellow-bellied Woodpecker,

Hairy Woodpecker,

Downy Woodpecker,

Red-bellied Woodpecker,

Golden-winged Woodpecker,

Order VI.-Anisodactyli,

White-breasted Nuthatch,

Order vil.–Alcyones,

European Kingfisher,

Belted Kingfisher,

Order VIII.-Chelidones,

European Marten,

Chimney Swallow,

Whip-poor-will,

Chuek Will's Widow,

Order IX.-Columba,

American Wild Pigeon,

Carolina Pigeon,

Domestic Pigeon,

Order X.-Gallinæ,

Golden Pheasant,

Pinnated Grouse,

Sharp-tailed Grouse,

European Quail,
American Quail,

California Quail,
Order XI.-Alectorides,

Horned Screamer,
Order XII.-Cursores,
Ostrich,
American Ostrich,
New-Holland Emeu, .
Great Bustard,

Little Bustaru,

Order XIII.-Grallatores,

Long-legged Plover, .

Balearic Crane,

Great Egret Heron,

American Bittern,

Least Bittern, .

Marabou Stork,
Flamingo,
Aroset,
American Aroset,
Roseate Spoonbill, .
Ibis,
Wood Ibis,
Scarlet Ibis,
Curlew,
Sandpiper,

Red-backed Sandpiper,

Solitary Sandpiper,

Red-breasted Sandpiper,

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