Excerpt from A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, or Descriptions of All the Animals Belonging to the Classes, Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, and Pisces, Which Have Been Hitherto Observed in the British Islands: Including the Domesticated, Naturalized, and Extirpated Species; The Whole Systematically Aranged History of British Animals by Dr. Fleming. This was completed in 1827 and published the year following, since which period a great variety of species have been added to the Fauna of this country, more particularly in the Class of Fish, though many occur in the Classes of Quadrupeds and Birds. As these additions have been already indicated in the Systematic Catalogue lately published by the author of the present work, it is unnecessary to dwell upon them individually. It may, however, afford interest to present a comparative view of the aggregate numbers of species in each Class, as they appear in the British Animals of Dr. Fleming and in the Manual now offered to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.