INTRODUCTION. V 



It only remains to add, that the usual 

 descriptions of form, size, colour, 8$c. are, 

 given in a compendious manner, and the 

 body of the work is consequently occupied 

 by such accounts of the manners, habits, 

 and modes of life, of the several classes of 

 animal creation, as appeared most likely to 

 attract the attention of the reader, and to 

 render the subject generally interesting and 

 instructive. 



