NATURAL HISTORY OF THE GLOBE, OF MAN, OF BEASTS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, INSECTS AND PLANTS. FROM THE WRITINGS OF BUFFON, CUVIER, LACEPEDE, AND OTHER EMINENT NATURALISTS. EDITED BY JOHN WRIGHT, MEMBER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. A NEW EDITION, WITH IMPROVEMENTS FROM GEOFFREY, GRIFFITH, RICHARDSON, LEWIS AND CLARK, LONG, WILSON, AND OTHERS. WITH FIVE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. IV. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY GRAY AND BOWEN. HARVARD A ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. CHAP. VI. Of Web-footed Waterfowl-The Avoset-The Scooping, Ameri- Bird-The Corvorant-The Shag-The Gannet, or Solan Goose-The Booby-The Albatross-The Yellow-nosed Al- batross-The Skimmer—The Penguin--The Patagonian Pen- Of Fishes in General-Of cetaceous Fishes-The Whale-The Of Cartilaginous Fishes-Of the Shark-The White Shark- The Blue, the Long-tailed, the Basking, the Hammer-headed, and the Angel Shark-The Remora-The Pilot Fish-The Dogfish and its Varieties-The Sawfish-The Ray-The Skate The Rough-Ray-The Thornback-Manner of fishing for Flat Fish-The Sting Ray-The Torpedo-The Sea Devil -The Sea Eagle-The Lamprey-The Sturgeon-The Ising- glass Fish-The Angler-The Diodon, or Sun Fish—The oblong and short Diodon-The Sea Porcupine-The Lump- Of Bony Fishes in general-Apodal Fishes-The Eel-The Conger-The Netted Eel-The Cordated Eel-The Electrical Eel-The Launce-The Wolf Fish-The Sword Fish—Jugu- lar Fishes—The Dragonet―The Weever-The Cod-Three and five bearded Cods-The Haddock-The Whiting Pout- |