PLAN OF THE WORK. XV 



Gould,Bonnet, Leewenhoeck, De Ceer, the Hubers ? 

 Chabrier, Ramdohr, Audouin, Herold, Trevira- 

 nus, Leon Dufour, Straus- Durckheim, and a few 

 others, chiefly foreign, our English naturalists 

 being almost exclusively engaged in the inferior 

 departments of classing, inventing terms, and 

 theorizing. 



The illustrations have been taken from the best 

 authorities Audouin, Lyonnet, Straus-Durck- 

 heim, &c. Those of the parts of the corselet 

 have been reduced from the Zoological Journal, 

 No. 18, by the liberal permission of the publisher, 

 G. B. Sowerby, F. L. S. 



The next of this series connected with Zoology, 

 will be the ''ALPHABET OF BIRDS/' comprising 

 an outline of their comparative anatomy and 

 physiology, to accompany " A CONSPECTUS OF 

 BRITISH BIRDS." 



Lee, Kent, June 10th, 1832. 



