PREFACE. 



THIS little volume contains a brief account of the 

 Animal Kingdom, and it is hoped that it may aid 

 Parents and Teachers in interesting the young in the 

 delightful and important study of Natural History. 

 As indicated on the title-page, it serves the purpose 

 of a key to the Natural History Tablets, but is also 

 complete in itself "Without the Tablets. 



It is proper to add, that the engravings are the 

 same, with few exceptions, as those in Tenney's " Man- 

 ual of Zoology," and that those of the Mammals are 

 mainly from Schinz, Audubon & Bachman, and Rich- 

 ardson; of the Birds, mainly from Audubon and 

 Wilson; of the Reptiles and Batrachians, mainly 

 from Holbrook -, of the Fishes, from Storer, Holbrook, 

 DeKay, and from nature ; of the Insects, from Harris, 

 Emmons, Say, Sanborn, and from nature ; of the Crus- 

 taceans, mainly from nature and Reports ; of the Mol- 

 lusks, from Binney, Woodward, Gould, Lea, Conrad, 



