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THE AUTHOR'S PREFACES. 



these I have added the new views and facts contained in the numerous and learnea 

 writings of MM. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, father and son, Savigny, Temminck, 

 Lichtenstein, Kuhl, Wilson, Horsfield, Vigors, Swainson, Gray, Ord, Say, Harlan, 

 Charles Bonaparte, Lamouroux, Mitchell, Lesueur, and many other able and studious 

 men, whose names will be carefully mentioned when I speak of the subjects on which 

 they have treated. 



The line collections of engravings which have appeared within the last twelve 

 years, have enabled me to indicate a greater number of species ; and I have amply 

 profited by this facility. I must particularly acknowledge what I owe on this 

 score to the Histoire des Mammiferes of MM. Geoffroy St. Hilaire and Frederic 

 Cuvier, the Planches coloriees of MM. Temminck and Laugier, the Galerie des Oiseaux 

 of M. Vieillot, the new edition of the Birds of Germany, by MM. Nauman, the Birds of 

 the United States of Messrs. Wilson, Ord, and Charles Bonaparte*, the great works 

 of M. Spix, and of his Highness the Prince Maximilian de Wied, on the Animals of 

 Brazil, and to those of M. de Ferussac on the Mollusks. The plates and zoological 

 descriptions of the travels of MM. Freycinet and X)uperrey, supplied in the first by 

 MM. Quoy and Gaymard, in the second by MM. Lesson and Garnot, also present 

 many new objects. The same must be said of the Animals of Java, by Dr. Hors- 

 field. Though on a smaller scale, new figures of rare species are to be found in the 

 Mt'moires du Museum, the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, and other French peri- 

 odicals, in the Zoological Illustrations of Mr. Swainson, and in the Zoological Journal, 

 published by able naturalists in London. The Journal of the Lyceum of New York, 

 and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, are not less valuable ; but in 

 proportion as the taste for natural history becomes extended, and the more numerous 

 the countries in which it is cultivated, the number of its acquisitions increases in 

 geometrical progression, and it becomes more and more difficult to collect all the 

 writings of naturalists, and to complete the table of their results. I rely, therefore, on 

 the indulgence of those whose observations may have escaped me, or whose works I 

 have not sufficiently consulted. 



My celebrated friend and colleague M. Latreille, having consented, as in the first 

 edition, to take upon himself the important and difficult part of the Crustaceans, 

 Arachnides, and Insects, will himself exj)lain in an advertisement the plan he has 

 foilowed, so that I need say nothing more on this subject. 



****** 

 Janlin du Roi, October, 1828. 



•The work of M. Audubon upon tlie Birds of Xortli America, I mc till nftcr llic wb-le of llial part wliicli treats ot Uitl, ivas 

 wUck luriiaic'i all othcri iu m.igriifictlicf, was unkuuwn to I prluloi. 



