Stack 
Armex 
5 
PREFACE. 
THE care of preparing a new edition of this long- 
established work having been confided to me, I have 
endeavoured to render it as instructive as I could without 
destroying its popular and entertaining character. For 
this purpose I have added scientific names to the popular 
ones at the head of each description, and I have placed 
all the animals of each genus and all the genera in each 
order together, that the child who reads the book may 
have the animals most nearly allied to each other asso- 
ciated together in his mind. For the same reason, I 
have used, in most cases, the Linnaean names, as Linnaeus 
placed a great many animals in one genus, which are 
now divided into several. At the same time that the 
child may learn both the Linnaean and the modern name 
of each animal, I have given both in the Table of Con- 
tents. I have not arranged the orders quite scientifically ; 
as I could not persuade myself either to displace the Lion 
from the situation he has held so long at the commence- 
20S1 2O4 
