THE ROYAL 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



EDITED Br 



RICHARD LYDEKKER, B.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S., Etc. 



WITH PREFftGE BY 



P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. O. 



SECRETARY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



ILLUSTRATED WITH 



Seventy-tu'o Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings 



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

 GAilBIER BOLTON, F.Z.S.: AND JUNY OTHEKS 





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LONDON 

 FEEDER I CK WARNE & CO. 



AND NEW YORK 



1893-94 



[All Riijldi Reserved} 



