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A dictionary of natural history; or, complete summary of zoology : containing a full and succinct description of all the animated beings in nature : namely, quadrupeds, birds, amphibious animals, fishes, insects, and worms ; displaying their respective classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, according to the arrangements of the most celebrated naturalists, particularly that of Linnaeus ; with all the various, detached, and unclassed animals, discovered by modern naturalists ; the whole forming a complete delineation of all the numerous creatures which compose the animal kingdom, as also all the fabulous animals of antiquity ; to which is prefixed a series of illustrative definitions, explaining the necessary technical and scientific terms, exhibiting the modes and properties of the different classes of animals, and showing the different arrangements of naturalists ; elucidating the justly admired science of natural history, and tending to facilitate its acquirements