Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Project Gutenberg has the other two volumes of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44056. Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44057. * * * * * Zoological Illustrations, OR ORIGINAL FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING ANIMALS, SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM THE CLASSES OF Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR NATURAL AFFINITIES. BY WM. SWAINSON, ESQ., F.R.S., F.L.S. ASSISTANT COMMISSARY GENERAL TO H. M. FORCES. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PARIS; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHIC SOCIETY, &c. VOL. III. SECOND SERIES. London: PRINTED BY W. J. SPARROW, 3, EDWARD STREET, HAMPSTEAD ROAD. PUBLISHED BY BALDWIN & CRADOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND R. HAVELL, 77, OXFORD STREET. 1832.-1833. * * * * * * TO WILLIAM JOHN BURCHELL, ESQ., THE AFRICAN TRAVELLER, Whose discoveries have benefited every branch of natural science; whose knowledge is equal to their full elucidation; and whose talents,--unfostered by, and unknown to, his own Government,--are held in respect and estimation throughout the civilized world. THIS THIRD VOLUME OF Zoological Illustrations, IS DEDICATED; BY HIS ATTACHED AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. * * * * * * PREFACE. ---- In closing our second series of ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, we cannot but express gratification at the terms in which they have been alluded to at home and abroad. It is hardly necessary to state that the scientific interest of the subjects described, and the attention bestowed upon the plates, have progressively increased, as the work has approached its termination. The contents of this series may now be divided into three equal portions, so that the BIRDS, the INSECTS, and the SHELLS, will form distinct and uniform volumes, unconnected, except in the general title, with each other. As complete sets of the first series have now become very scarce, new editions of the deficient parts are in rapid progress; and the whole will then be divided, as above, into three portions. It is but justice to Mr. G. Bayfield,[1] that the author should here express his satisfaction at the skill and care with which he has executed the colouring of the plates, both of this work, and of every other in which his services have been engaged.