knowledge for the People : OR, THE PLAIN WHY AND BECAUSE. FAMILIARIZING SUBJECTS OF USEFUL CURIOSITY AND BY JOHN TIMBS, Editor of Laconics :' Arcana of Science and Art,' &c. “Its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge, and its objects truth and utility.”—Sir Humphry Davy. Zoological Series. BOSTON: LILLY & WAIT, AND CARTER & HENDEE. NEW-YORK, E. BLISS; PHILADELPHIA, CAREY AND HART; NEW ORLEANS, M. CARROL; PORTLAND, S. COLMAN. 7 Dog . 50 The General Subject 3 Pine Marten - 17 Hippopotamus 42 10 The Cat Tribe 26 Mule 54 The Ape Tribe 12 Domestic Cat 29 Beaver - 56 65 - 134 Cuckoo - 107 Duck - 121 Tropic Bird 134 Missel-bird Hornbill 134 Lark 109 FOREIGN BIRDS. Grossbeak - 134 Swallow - 109 Vulture - 122 Faithful Jacana 135 Starling - 111 Parrot - 123 Bell-bird 135 Crossbill 111 Toucan - 124 Sawing-bird 134 Bullfinch - 111 Amer. Woodpecker 124 Cat-bird Lark 113 Red Creeper - 124 Rice-bird - 135 Bunting - 113 Humming Bird - 125 Cooly - 136 Chaffinch 113 American Crow - 125 Booby - 136 Canary Bird . 113 Bird of Paradise - 125 Pelican Linnet 113 Indicator - 126 Cormorant Sparrow - 114 Loxia - 126 Man of War Nightingale - 114 Mocking-bird - 126 Ornithoryncus Dipper ? 114 Snow-bunting - 127 |General Economy 138 - - 108 - 135 - 136 - 137 - 137 . 137 General Economy 201 | Man-of-War - - 208 Oyster The Earthworm 203 Cuttle-fish • 209 Mussel General Economy 219 Lantern-Ay 255 Ant-Lion - 269 Dermestes - 242 Kermes and Lac 256 Ichneumon-fly 270 Death-watch - 242 Cochineal Insect 257 Cossus - 265 The House-fly - 280 Skipper 251 NEUROPTERA APTERA. Earwig - 251 The Dragon-fly - 266 The Flea- - 281 HEMIPTERA. Day-fly - 267 Spider - 281 The Mantis 252 Caddis - 268 Scorpion . 283 Cricket 253 Hemorobius - 269 Crab, Lobster, &c. 284 Locust - 253 |