LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES;

CONSISTING OF

DESCRIPTIONS

OF

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY

ANIMALS;

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.

T. B. L.

O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
The earth is full of thy riches.

So is the great and wide sea also; wherein are things creeping innumerable,
both small and great beasts.

PSALM Civ. 24, 25.

Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

MATT. vi. 26.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDU
APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

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LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE;

SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY,

GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS;

AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1844.

THE greater portion of the matter contained in the following pages has already been put forth by the Committee of General Literature and Education in a different shape. It having been thought that the prints and descriptions of animals published on separate sheets, under the direction of that Committee, might prove an acceptable collection if presented in the form of a volume, the author has revised, and in some cases re-written and expanded, his former notices; while the artist has prepared, on a reduced scale, the cuts intended to illustrate the work.

The chief objects which the writer has endeavoured to keep in view, may be stated in a few words. They are these:

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I. To lead the thoughts of the Reader to a contemplation of the wisdom and goodness of God, as