Page 47, note 83, lines 9 and 19, for _litoria_, read _littorea_. Page 50, note 90, line 2 from bottom, after "and" insert "which." Page 53, note 93, line 5 from bottom, for _Pandalus varius_, read _Hippolyte varians_ (corrected in Index). _Jarrold & Sons, The Empire Press, Norwich and London._ Transcriber's Notes Spelling and punctuation are retained as in the original. Footnotes were kept as close to the referring paragraph as practicable. They are essentially part of the text. The errata section was moved to the end of the book and its changes are entered. The following words appear both with and without hyphens. Bee-bird Fly-catcher fresh-water Gar-fish Goat-sucker marsh-bird Needle-fish north-west Saw-fish sea-shoare sea-shore whole-footed [=m] indicates a double m; e.g. co[=m]on. [=u] indicates a letter u with macron above. w^{ch} indicates multiple letters are superscripted. y^r indicates a single superscripted letter. Footnote 98 'Both Vipers (or Adders) and Snakes, the latter in particular,' 'latte ' included a following space, so made the assumption that the word here is 'latter'. Changed. Page 13 'Mergus acutarostris cinereus' 'acutarostris' may be 'acutirostris' as used elsewhere. Spelled as in original. Page 39 'sprdding the finnes into a liuely posture do hang them' 'sprdding' is an odd spelling for spreading. Spelled as in original. Page 45 'with a long & strong aculeus in the tayle conceuud of' 'conceuud' is an odd spelling. Unchanged. Page 76 'A yarewhelp or barker [some words smeared out]' Closing bracket added. Page 91 'came out of his nostrells. thus much ffrom him who doth' 'ffrom' matches original. Double 'ff' occurs several places in the book. Page 93 'or Joannes Goropius (as the name is variously given in the "Biographie Universelle" (b. 1518, d. 1572),' Missing closed parenthesis. Unchanged. Index 'Notonacton' 'Notonacton' Refers to 'Notonecton' in all cases. Unchanged. Index 'Porbeagle' 'Porbeagle' '57' may be a typo for '37' Porbeagle is also known as 'Canis carcharius alius' or 'canis charcharius alius Jonst.' or 'Lamna cornubica'. Unchanged.