PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. XXKV 
nuel d’Ornithomalogie”’ of M. Temminck, the ‘¢ Ornithological 
Fragments” of M. Wagler, the ‘‘Description of Reptiles” by 
the late Merrem, and the dissertation on the same subject by 
M. Fitzinger, were principally useful to me for the Vertebrated 
animals. The ‘Histoire des Animaux sans Vertebres” of M. 
de Lamarck, and the ‘‘ Malacologie” of M. de Blainville, were 
also of great use to me for the Mollusca. To these I have 
added the new views and facts contained in the numerous and 
learned writings of Messrs Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, father and 
son, Savigny, Temminck, Lichtenstein, Kuhl, Wilson, Hors- 
field, Vigors, Swainson, Gray, Ord, Say, Harlan, Charles Bo- 
naparte, Lamouroux, Mitchell, Lesueur, and many other able 
and studious men, whose names will be carefully mentioned, 
wherever I speak of the subjects they have described. 
The fine collection of engravings which have appeared 
within the last twelve years, have allowed me to indicate a 
greater number of species, nor have I failed to make ample use 
of the opportunity. I must particularly acknowledge what I 
owe on this score, to the ‘* Histoire des Mammiferes” of MM. 
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frederick Cuvier, the ‘‘ Planches 
Coloriées’’ of Messrs Temminck and Laugier, the ‘‘ Galerie des 
Oiseaux” of M. Vieillot, the new edition of the ‘‘ Oiseaux d’ Al- 
lemagne” of M. Nauman, the Birds of the United States of 
Messrs Wilson, Ord, and Charles Bonaparte(1), the great 
works of M. Spix and of the prince Maximilian de Wied on 
the animals of Brazil, and to those of M. Ferussac on the Mol- 
lusca. The plates and zoological descriptions of the travels of 
Messrs Freycinet and Duperrey, given in the first by Messrs 
Quoy and Gaymard, and in the second by Messrs Lesson and 
Garnot, present, also, many new objects. ‘The same should 
be said of the animals of Java, by M. Horsfield.. Though ona 
smaller scale, new figures of rare species are to be found in the 
“¢ Memoires du Muséum,” in the ‘¢ Annales des Sciences Natu- 
relles,” in the different dictionaries of the natural sciences, in - 
(1) The work of M. Audubon upon the Birds of North America, which sur- 
passes all others in magnificence, was unknown to me till after the whole of that 
part which treats of birds was printed. 
Vou. I.—(4) 
