Transcriber's note: Spelling and punctuation inconsistencies have been harmonized. The original hyphenation and use of accented words has been retained. Obvious printer errors have been repaired. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. Please see the end of this book for further notes. Bible references are as they are in the original book. [Illustration: THE OSTRICH. "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider."--JOB xxxix. 18.] BIBLE ANIMALS; BEING A DESCRIPTION OF EVERY LIVING CREATURE MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES, FROM THE APE TO THE CORAL. BY THE REV. J. G. WOOD, M.A., F.L.S. ETC., AUTHOR OF "HOMES WITHOUT HANDS," "COMMON OBJECTS OF THE SEA-SHORE AND COUNTRY," ETC. _WITH ONE HUNDRED NEW DESIGNS BY W. F. KEYL, T. W. WOOD, AND E. A. SMITH._ ENGRAVED BY G. PEARSON. _NEW EDITION._ LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 1883. LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL. PREFACE. Owing to the conditions of time, language, country, and race under which the various books of the Holy Scriptures were written, it is impossible that they should be rightly understood at the present day, and in this land, without the aid of many departments of knowledge. Contemporary history, philology, geography, and ethnology must all be pressed into the service of the true Biblical scholar; and there is yet another science which is to the full as important as either of the others. This is Natural History, in its widest sense.