A

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 LONDOR.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH IMPROVEMENTS FROM GEOFFREY, GRIFFITH, RICHARD

SON, LEWIS AND CLARK, LONG, WILSON, AND OTHERS.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831,

By SAMUEL G. GOODRICH, 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-

can, and white Avoset - The Courier-The Flamingo The
Auk-The Great Auk-The Razorbill—The Puffin-The Lit-
tle Auk-The Tufted and Crested Auk, &c.—The Guillemot

- The Foolish, Lesser, and Marbled Guillemot—The Diver
The Northern, Speckled, Black, and Red-throated Diver-The
Chinese Diver—The Tern—The Great, Lesser, Black, and
Striated Tern-The Noddy-The Petrel—The Fulmar-The
Shearwater- The Stormy Petrel—The Giant Petrel—The Gull
-The Black-backed, Skua, Wagel, Herring Gulls, &c.The
Kittiwake-The Common Gull—The Blackcap, &c.—Modes
of taking Seafowl-The Merganser— The Gooseander – The
Dun River-The Smew—The Hooded Merganser-The Duck
-The Swan-The Black Swan-The Goose-The Bean
Goose-The Barnacle-The Brent Goosc-The Mallard—The
Eider Duck-The Velyet, Scoter, Tufted, and Scaup Duck-
The Golden Eye—The Shoveller-The Pintail—The Pochard
-The Long-tailed Duck—The Widgeon--The Teal-The
Muscovy, Brazilian, American, and Chinese Ducks-Decoy for
Ducks The Pelican-The Frigate Pelican, or Man-of-war
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-

guin- The Magellanic Penguin- The Tropic Bird–The

Darter_The White and Black-bellied Darters.

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CHAP. VII.

Of Fishes in General-Of cetaceous Fishes—The Whale-The

Fin Fish—The Narwal, or Sea Unicorn—The Spermaceti

Whale–The Dolphin-Grampus, Porpesse, &c. . 64

CHAP. VIII.--PART I.

Of Cartilaginous Fishes Of the Shark—The White Shark-

The Blue, the Long-tailed, the Basking, the Hammer-headed, "TS

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- 'Rio-I
glass Fish—The Angler-The Diodon, or Sun Fish–The Sie per
oblong and short Diodon—The Sea Porcupine—The Lump-
sucker— The Sea Snail— The Pipe-Fish—The Hippocampus in his
-The Galley Fish

CHAP. VIII.--PART II.

Of Bony Fishes in general-Apodal Fishes—The Eel—The

Conger–The Netted Eel-The Cordated Eel—The Electrica

Eel—The Launce~The Wolf Fish-The Sword Fish-Jugu-

lar Fishes—The Dragonet-The Weever-The Cod-Three dingen

and five bearded Cods The HaddockThe Whiting Pout- Lola

The Bib- The Poor-The Coal Fish-The Pollock-The The Sun

Whiting– The Hake-The Ling—The Burbot—The Blenny The La

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