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Gardens ; but drawings for the greater number of the 

 plates have been made from specimens in the Edin- 

 burgh Museum, for the examination of which every 

 facility was afforded by Professor Jameson. These 

 drawings were all executed by Mr Stewart, whose as- 

 sistance in this department we were fortunate in ob- 

 taining about the commencement of the work, and 

 whose talents in the delineation of animals will sup- 

 ply a want which has been long sought after by the 

 Naturalists of the Scottish Metropolis. 



We shall now commence the detailed history of 

 the animals of this group, with the description of 



