The treasury of natural history

Or, a popular dictionary of animated nature. In which the characteristics that distinguish the different classes, genera, and species, are combined with a variety of interesting information illustrative of the habits, instincts, and general economy of the animal kingdom

By Samuel Maunder, author of "The treasury of knowledge," "The scientific and literary treasury," etc. etc. Revised and corrected, with an extended supplement, by T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. F.L.S., lecturerer on botany, zoology, and comparative anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital Medical College. Embellished with 900 woodcuts, expressly engraved for this work