BIBLE QUADRUPEDS: The Natural History OF THE ANIMALS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. BY THOMAS BINGLEY, AUTHOR OF "STORIES ABOUT DOGS," 66 TALES OF TRAVELLERS," NEW EDITION. ""STORIES LONDON: T. J. ALLMAN, 463, OXFORD STREET. BINGLEY'S ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. 1. STORIES ABOUT HORSES, illustrative of their Intelligence and Docility. Twelve Engravings on Steel. 2. STORIES ABOUT DOGS, illustrative of their Instinct, Sagacity, and Fidelity. Eight Engravings by LANDSEER. 3. TALES ABOUT BIRDS, illustrative of their Nature, Habits, and Instincts. Eight Engravings by LANDELLS. 4. STORIES ABOUT INSTINCT, illustrative of the Characters and Habits of Animals. Eight Engravings by LANDSEER, &c. 5. BIBLE QUADRUPEDS: the Natural History of the Animals mentioned in Scripture. With Sixteen Engravings. 6. TALES OF SHIPWRECKS AND DISASTERS AT SEA, including the Wreck of the Forfarshire, and other recent Losses. Eight Engravings by LANDELLS. 7. TALES ABOUT TRAVELLERS, their Perils, Adventures, and Discoveries. Eight Engravings by GILBERT. "A SET OF BOOKS WHICH, PROFESSING ONLY TO AMUSE, INSTRUCT AND EDIFY IN NO ORDINARY DEGREE."-Quarterly Review. PREFACE. In the present little work, it has been the author's aim to relate in a plain and familiar manner, all that is most interesting and instructive in the natural history of the animals mentioned in Scripture. With this view he has collected, from the narratives of the most recent travellers who have treated of the natural history of the East, as well as from other sources, anecdotes of the habits and instincts of such animals as came within the limits of his design, and has thus been enabled to add both to the value and interest of his little work. In laying before the public a fifth edition, the author has merely to state that the whole has undergone a careful revision, and is thus, he hopes, rendered somewhat more worthy of the approbation with which its predecessors were favoured. |