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commencement of each class will be given 

 an Engraved Figure, illustrative of the various 

 parts of animals, with their names, which can 

 be referred to, as occasion requires. 



The general account of the habits, economy, 

 and instinct of the animals, will be popular, 

 and it will be intermingled with a great variety 

 of interesting anecdotes, which the Editors have 

 been carefully collecting for a long series of 

 years, for the express purpose of this under- 

 taking ; and from these, they conceive, mucli of 

 the true dispositions and individual history of 

 the animals which come under their review, 

 may be gathered. 



For the accommodation of those who may 

 have a predilection for distinct departments of 

 Natural History, each group of animals will 

 form separate and independent volumes. 



In pursuing this undertaking, it is the inten- 

 tion of the Editors to figure as many as possible 

 of the animals from Nature ; and in regard to 

 the others, to copy those only which have 

 been well represented in works of undoubted 

 accuracy. All the plates will have back grounds, 

 which will give them a more pictorial effect than 

 mere representations of the animals themselves. 



