Just Published 

 Br Du. SHAW, 



With one hundred and seventy Plates, printed uniform 

 with his General Zoology, in 2 Vols, price 2/. 12s. Qd. or 

 on large paper 3/. ids. Od. in boards, 



ZOOLOGICAL LECTURES, &c. 



delivered at the ROYAL INSTITUTION in the year 



1806-/. 



The present short course of Lectures is by no means intended 

 as a deeply scientific and elaborate series of zoological disquisi- 

 tions, but may rather be termed, in the words of Sir Kenelm 

 Digby, '.'. a familiar discourse with Lady- Audi tors." The general 

 tenor of the explanations is purposely conducted with as little ap- 

 pearance of the parade of technical terms as possible ; and the 

 reader must not expect to find any long dissertations relative to 

 the nature of animal life, any very minute observations relative to 

 the classification of the animal kingdom, and still less any quota- 

 tions from Aristotle in order to prove that " a man hath ten 

 toes*;" but the whole is merely intended as a plain illustration 

 of the animal world according to the Linnaean mode of arrange- 

 ment, with some occasional deviations and transpositions. 



* Grew, Mus. Reg. Soc. 



Dr. SHAW'S ZOOLOGY, 



VOL. VIII. 

 BEING the second on the subject of 



BIRDS, 



WILL BE PUBLISHED IN MAY, I8O9. 



