I bogin tlie next order^ Jlprodiones. Then come tlic Gnies, 

 and tlio curious bird, Phoenicopterus, for which I propose 

 the uew order of Fliamkoptevi. After this come the 

 Anseres and the Tijrjopodes. I recommend also the study 

 of these last-mcutioned birds to specialists and to auato- 

 mists, to vorif j if they are rightly placed here. By the 

 structure of their feetj they have much aualogy with Fulica. 



Then come the TnijJennes ; next the (Tfivice and the 

 Ster/anopodes, whicli form a natural link with the Acelpitres ; 

 as both may be considerod birds of prey. 



I havo adoptcd the order Striges for the Owls^ aud imme- 

 diately after I place the Psittcici. I havo also adopted the 

 orderOocc^/r/es, withitssub-orders/v//70rta('f///r(', Iletcrodeirtijhv, 

 and Anisodactylcp ', and the order, Fici, for the Wood- 

 peckers. Thon como the Passeres, witli its three sub-ordors 

 of Oscines, Taclieophome, aud OlicjomyodiO, and its four sec- 

 tions of Oscincs Dentirostres, Tenuirostrcs, Couirostres, and 

 (hdtrirostres, which reprosent the berit classification of these 

 birds. 



I havo takeu away from this ordor the Oscincs Latirostres, 

 nnd incbidcd thcm in the ncxt order of dlacrocji Ires ; as I have 

 not bcen ablo to see in what thoy differ. 



Lastly, I propose the new order of Trorldli for tlie Hum- 

 ming Birds [Trocdiilidci'), thoso birds difforing complctcl}^ 

 froni all the others by the structure of thcir beaks^ leg'^^ 

 ctc, and also by their habits. 



For the goneric classification of thoso hxst birds, I have 

 bcon groatly hclpcd by tho oxccUent monograph of Mr. John 

 Clouldj tho " Nomonclator/^ the revisions of gonera of 

 those birds mado by Mr. Elliott in thc "Ibis;" and also by 

 the fino v/ork (in course of publication) cf my fricud 

 Mr. Mulsant, who has hastened to publish (oxpressly for me) 

 his " Cataloguo dos Oisoaux mouchos ou Colibris." I rogrot 

 not to have beon able to acccpt eutiroly his classificatiou, 

 neither all his new gonera. 



Before making my classification, I studiod with care thoso 

 of Liuuo_, Brisson^ Latlram, IVmminck, Lacopcde, Lesson, 



