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. IV. 



LONDON 



FREDERICK WARNE & CO. 

 AXD NEW YORK 



1895 



[All llight* Reserved] 



