PREFACE. VU 



all these are attributes which render it peculiarly precious 

 to a romantic naturalist. I hope the statisticians will for- 

 give me if they cannot see it with my spectacles. 



The Illustrations are drawn for the most part by Wol^ 



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and engraved by Whymper: they will speak for them- 

 selves, 



P. H. G. 



TOBQUAT, 1860. 



