THE 



ANIMAI. KINGDOM, 



ARRANGED ACCORDING TO ITS ORGANIZATION, 



SERVING AS A 



FOUNDATION FOR THE 



NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS, 



AND AN 



INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 



BARON CUVIER, 



Great Officer of the Lesion of Honour, Counsellor of State, and Member of the Royal Council of 



Public Instruction; One of tlie Forty of the French Academy ; Perpetual Secretary to 



the Academy of Sciences ; Member of the Academies and Royal Societies 



of London, Berlin. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Turin, Edinburgh, 



Copenhagen, Gottingen, Bavaria, Modena, the Netherlands 



and Calcutta ; and of the Linnaean Society of London . 



WITH FIGURES DESIGNED FROM NATURE : 



THE 

 BT 



M. LA TREILLE, 



Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Member of the Institute (Royal Academy of Sciences) and of 

 the greater portion of other learned Societies in Europe, America, &c. 



CrnuiSlatcir from tf)e UttSt Jfrcnc]^ CSlJttton. 



WITH 



ADDITIONAL NOTES, 



ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY 700 ADDITIONAL PLATES. 



IN FOUR VOLUMES. 



VOL. IV. 



LONDON: 



E. HENDERSON. 2. OLD BAILEY. LUDGATE-HILL. 



AND SOLD BT ALL BOOKSELLERS. 



1836. 



