X PREFACE. 



and Water Rat,) were made by Mr. Harry 

 Hoyle, of Height, near Ripponden, Yorkshire. 



Notwithstanding all the care that has been 

 taken, the author is sorry to remark, that 

 there are yet left three or four plates, particu- 

 larly those of the Great and Barbastelle Bats, 

 which are not quite so correct as he could have 

 wished them to be. He trusts, however, to the 

 candour of his readers to overlook the defects 

 of these, in consideration of what he hopes will 

 be thought real excellence in the greatest part 

 of the others. 



It only remains to state, that the author 

 will consider himself much indebted to the 

 kindness of any gentleman who will take the 

 trouble to communicate to him such original 

 observations on the habits of life and economy 

 of the British Fishes, as may be thought likely 

 to prove interesting to the public. 



CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS, 

 March I, 1809. 





