THE ROYAL 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



EDITED BY 



RICHARD 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, !•'. SPECHT, P. J. SMIT, G. MUTZEL, A. T. ELWES, J. WOLF, 

 GAMBLER BOLTON, F.Z.S.; AND MANY OTHERS 



VOL. VI. 



SECTION XII. 



LONDON 

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A N D N E W Y ( > R K 

 1896 



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