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logue, et ne connoissent, dans les oiseaiix, que les pattes et le 

 bee. Ce n'est point dans les nids quails les observent, mais a 

 la chasse et dans leur gibeciere." [Jennings^s Ornitholbgia.) 



It would be a great point gained, if the ingenious system of 

 Mr. Vigors could be established on its professed basis, namely^ 

 that of nature ; it would simplify the science, and render it 

 much more easily attained by the student. 



Having given this outline of the principal arrangements 

 which have been adopted by naturalists, for the classification of 

 birds, I have proposed to myself to begin a series of papers, in 

 which it is intended to give particular descriptions and histo- 

 rical notices of our principal British birds; but, before pro- 

 ceeding with this, it will be necessary to give a table of the 

 terminology used in the descriptions of birds, and to this I 

 shall confine myself in the present communication. 



Terms used in 



Caput, the head. 



Rostrum, the bill. 



Nares, the nostrils. 



Cera, wax (on the bill) (Jig. 55. a). 



Lingua, the tongue. 



Capustrum, the face. 



Lorum, the lore (b). 



Tempora, the temples (c). 



Barba, the beard (d). 



Gula, the chin (e). 



Humeri, the shoulders (/). 



Crissum, the vent (g). 



T^ctrices, the wing coverts (h). 



A lula spuria, bastard wing (v) 



Speculum, the wing-spot {w). 



Scapulares, scapulars [i). 



Cauda, the tail. 



Tectrices caudae, the tail coverts 



(f). 

 Crura, the legs C^). 

 Femora, the thighs. 



Ornuhology. 



Tridactyli, three-toed. 

 Didactyli, two-toed (y). 

 Pes, the foot. 



Natatorius, palmated feet (z). 

 Frons, the forehead (/}. 

 Vertex, the crown. 

 O'cciput, the hind-head (?«). 

 Crista, the crest (w). 

 O'culi, the eyes. 

 Supercilia, the eyebrows. 

 O'rbitEe, the orbits (o). 

 Genae, the cheeks. 

 Aures, the ears ( p). 

 Collum, the neck. 

 Nucha, the nape {q). 

 Jugulum, the throat. 

 Uropygium, the rump (r). 

 Interscapulum, between shoul- 

 ders (5). 

 Axillae, axillaries (J,). 

 Hypocdndriae, hypochondres (m).' 



