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ORIGINAL FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS
OF
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING
ANIMALS,
SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM THE CLASSES OF
AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR APPARENT AFFINITIES.
BY
WM. SWAINSON, ESQ., F.R.S., F.L.S.
ASSISTANT COMMISSARY GENERAL TO H. M. FORCES. CORRESPONDING MEMBER
OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PARIS; HONORARY MEMBER
OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; MEMBER OF
THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY, &c. &c. &c.
VOL. I.
SECOND SERIES.
PRINTED BY R. HAVELL, JUN. NEWMAN STREET.
PUBLISHED BY BALDWIN AND CRADOCK,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
1829.
TO
MRS. CORRIE,
OF
WOODVILLE, NEAR BIRMINGHAM.
My Dear Madam,
Allow me, in dedicating this volume of Illustrations to you, to evince my respect and friendship for one whose t