Vlll PREFACE. 



plants; also M. Mesnel, who has drawn the zoolo- 

 gical illustrations with much taste; and lastly, 

 M. Emile Bayard, to whose pencil we owe some 

 charming landscapes. 



F. A. POUCHET. 



Museum of Natural History at Eoubn, 

 15th October, 1867. 



NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS. 



In this translation the illustrative notes, which in the French 

 original are placed at the end of the book, have been transferred, 

 for the convenience of the reader, to the pages to which they refer. 

 A few of them, deemed of minor value to readers in tliis country, 

 have been omitted, and others, both useful and interesting, have 

 been added by the Translator. To insure greater precision, the 

 scientific names of animals and plants where wanting have been as 

 far as possible supplied. 



London, October, 1S69. 



