Buffon-Natural History of Birds

Barr's Buffon.

Buffon's Natural History

containing

The Theory of the Earth, A General History of Man,

Of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals &c. &c.

From the French, with notes by the Translator.

In Ten Volumes

VOLUME IX

H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row

1807

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in his personal library

December, 2009.

Titlepage i

facing Titlepage

Contents iii iv v vi

CONTENTS.

The Loris 001 002

The Javelin Bat 003 004 005

The Serval 006 007 008

facing page 008

The Ocelet 009 010 011 012

The Margay 013 014 015 016

The Jackall and the Adil 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024

The Isatis 025 026 027 028

facing page 028

The Glutton 029 030 031 032 033 034

facing page 034

The Stinkards 035 036 037 038 039 040

facing page 040

The Pekan and the Vision 041 042 043 044 045

The Leming 046 047 048 049 050

The Sea Otter 051

The Canakian Otter 052 053 054

The Seal, Walrus, and the Manati 055 056 057

facing page 057

058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106

The Nomenclature of apes 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148

facing page 150

The Orang-Outang, or the Pongo and the Jocko 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176

The Pithecos, or Pigmy 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184

The Gibon, or Long-tailed Ape 185 186 187