[860] Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad., vol. ii. p. 409.

[861] Amoen. Acad., vol. iv. Essay 75. -- 8.

[862] Ibid., vol. vi. -- 22.

[863] Smith's Introd. to Phys. and Syst. Botany, p. 304. 1807.

[864] This information was communicated to me by Professor Henslow, of Cambridge.

[865] Book iii. ch. iv.

[866] De Candolle, Essai Elemen. &c., p. 50.

[867] Quarterly Review, vol. x.x.x. p. 8.

[868] Essay on the Habitable Earth, Amoen. Acad., vol. ii. p.

409.

[869] Principles of Botany, p. 389.

[870] Ibid.

[871] Buffon, vol. v.--On the Virginian Opossum.

[872] Prichard's Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 54.

[873] In the above enumeration of the leading zoological provinces of land quadrupeds I have been most kindly a.s.sisted by Mr. Waterhouse of the British Museum, author of a most able and comprehensive work on the "Natural History of the Mammalia," now in the course of publication. London, Bailliere, 1846.

[874] Pennant's Hist. of Quadrupeds, cited by Prichard, Phys.

Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 66.

[875] Natural History of the Mammalia, vol. i., on the Marsupials. London, Bailliere, 1846.

[876] Description of the Equatorial Regions.

[877] Prichard, Phys. Hist., of Mankind, vol. i. p. 75.

[878] Buffon, vol. v. p. 204.

[879] Sir T. D. Lauder, Bart., on the Floods in Morayshire, Aug. 1829, p. 302, second edition.

[880] Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, vol.

ii. p. 153.

[881] Richardson's Fauna Boreali-Americana, p. 16.

[882] Phil. Trans., vol. ii. p. 872.

[883] Wood's Zoography, vol. i. p. 11.

[884] On the authority of Mr. Campbell. Library of Entert.

Know., Menageries. vol. i. p. 152.

[885] Cuvier's Animal Kingdom by Griffiths, vol. ii. p. 109.

Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Menageries, vol. i. p. 366.

[886] Horsfield, Zoological Researches in Java, No. ii., from which the figure is taken.

[887] Append. to Parry's Second Voyage, years 1819-20.

[888] Account of the Arctic Regions, vol. i. p. 518.

[889] Turton in a note to Goldsmith's Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p.

43.

[890] Supplement to Parry's First Voyage of Discovery, p. 189.

[891] Goldman's American Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 22.

[892] Dr. Richardson, Brit. a.s.soc. Report, vol. v. p. 161.

[893] System of Geography, vol. v. p. 157.

[894] Spix and Martius, Reise, &c., vol. iii. pp. 1011. 1013.

[895] Sir W. Parish's Buenos Ayres, p. 187., and Robertson's Letters on Paraguay, p. 220.

[896] United Service Journal, No. xxiv. p. 697.

[897] Krantz, vol. i. p. 129., cited by Goldsmith, Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 260.

[898] Darwin's Journal, &c., p. 461.

[899] Prichard, vol. i. p. 47.

[900] Bewick's Birds, vol. ii. p. 294., who cites Latham.

[901] Pisa, 1827 (not sold).

[902] Bachman, Silliman's Amer. Journ., No. 61, p. 92.

[903] Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales, tome vii. p. 429.

[904] Fleming, Phil. Zool., vol. ii. p. 43.

[905] Silliman's Amer. Journ., No. 61. p. 83.

[906] Richardson, Brit. a.s.soc. Rep., vol. v. p. 202.