12 ADVERTISEMEiNT TO TIIK SECOND EDITION. 



these I have added the new views and facts contained in the numerous and learned 

 writings of J\IM. Geoft'roy St. Hilaire, father and son, Savigny, Temrninck, 

 Lichtenstein, Kulil, Wilson, Horstield, Vigors, Swainson, Gray, Ord, Say, Harlan, 

 Charles Bonaparte, Lamouroux, iVIitchell, Lesueur, and many other able and studious 

 men, whose names will be carefully mentioned when I speak of the subjects on which 

 they have treated. 



The fine collections of engravings which have appeared within the last twelve 

 years, have enabled me to indicate a greater number of species ; and I have amply 

 profited by this facility. I must particularly acknowledge what I owe on this 

 score to the Hi^toiie des Maiiimi fires of MM. Geoft'roy St. Hilaire and Frederic 

 Cuvier, tlie Planches colorit'es of MM. I'emminck and Laugier, the Gulerie des Oiseaux 

 of M. VieiUot, the new edition of the Birds of Germany, by MM. Nauman, the Birds of 

 the United States of Messrs. Wilson, Ord, and Charles Bonaparte*, the great works 

 of i\I. Spi.x;, and of his Highness the Prince JMaximilian de Wied, on the Animals of 

 Brazil, and to those of M. de Ferussac on the MoUusks. The plates and zoological 

 descriptions of the travels of MM. Freycinet and Duperrey, supplied in the first by 

 MM. Quoy and Gaymard, in tlie second by MM. Lesson and Garnot, also jiresent 

 many new objects. The same must be said of the Animals of Java, by Dr. Hors- 

 field. Though on a smaller scale, new figures of rare species are to be found in the 

 Mi'motres da Must'mn, the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, and other French peri- 

 odicals, in the Zoological Illustrations of Mr. Swainson, and in the Zoological Journal, 

 published by able naturalists in London, The Journal of the Lyceum of New York, 

 and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, are not less valuable ; but in 

 jiroportion as the taste for natural history becomes extended, and the more numerous 

 the countries in wdiich it is cultivated, the number of its acquisitions increases in 

 geometrical progression, and it becomes more and more difticult to collect all the 

 writings of naturalists, and to complete the table of their results. I rely, therefore, on 

 the indulgence of those whose observations may have escaped me, or wliose works I 

 have not sufiiciently consulted. 



My celebrated friend and colleague M. Latreille, having consented, as in the first 

 edition, to take upon himself the important and difticult part of the Crustaceans, 

 Arachnides, and Insects, will himseh explain in an advertisement the plan he has 

 followed, so that I need say nothing more on this subject. 



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