THE ROYAL 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



EDITED BY 



RICHARD LYDEKKER, B.A., F.R.S., ETC. 



WITH PREFACE BY 



P. L. SCLATER, M.A., PH.D., F.R.S., ETC. 



SECRETARY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



ILLUSTRATED WITH 



Seventy -two Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings 



W. KUHNERT, F. SPECHT, P. J. SMIT, G. MUTZEL, A. T. ELWES, J. WOLF, 

 GAMBIER BOLTON, F.Z.S.; AND MANY OTHERS 



VOL. II. 



LONDON 

 FKEDEEICK WAKNE & CO. 



AND NEW YORK 



1894 



[All Rights Reserved} 



