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THE ROYAL 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



EDITED BY 



ARD 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. VI. 



LONDON" 



FREDERICK WARNE & CO. 



AND XEW YOKK 



1896 



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