ELEMENTS 



OF 



NATURAL' HISTORY, 



i 



ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SCIENCE, 

 CONTAINING 



THE GENERIC CHARACTERS OF NEARLY THE WHOLE 



ANIMAL KINGDOM, 



AND 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES. 



BY JOHN STARK, F. R. S. E. 



MEMBER OF THE WERNERtAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, 



&C. &C. 



WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. 



VOL. I. 

 VERTEBRATA. 



EDINBURGH : 



ADAM BLACK AND JOHN STARK, EDINBURGH: 

 AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN & GREEN, LONDON. 



1828. 



