THE NATURALIST’S REPOSITORY, OR Monthly Miscellany OF EXOTIC NATURAL HISTORY:

CONSISTING OF

ELEGANTLY COLOURED PLATES WITH APPROPRIATE SCIENTIFIC

AND GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS

OF THE MOST CURIOUS, SCARCE, AND BEAUTIFUL

PRODUCTIONS OF NATURE

THAT HAVE BEEN RECENTLY DISCOVERED

IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD;

AND MORE ESPECIALLY SUCH

NOVELTIES

As from their extreme Rarity remain entirely undescribed, or which have

not been duly noticed by any preceding Naturalists.

THE WHOLE COMPOSED ACCORDING TO

THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF

The Science,

AND FORMING COLLECTIVELY A TRULY VALUABLE

COMPENDIUM OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

OF

QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS, SHELLS,

MARINE PRODUCTIONS,

AND EVERY OTHER INTERESTING OBJECT OF NATURAL HISTORY,

THE PRODUCE OF FOREIGN CLIMATES.

BY E. DONOVAN, F.L.S. W.S. &c.

VOL. I.

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL,

STATIONERS’ HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET.

1823.

Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love Lane, Eastcheap.