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orders of the feathered tribes. Plunderers, Robbers, Snatchers, 

 Scrapers, Watchers, Gropers, Cooers, and Songsters, are cha- 

 racters well known to everybody. Nothing in fact can be 

 more beautiful than the accordance thus presented between 

 men and birds ; but as it is unnecessary to insist upon what all 

 enlightened naturalists must at once admit, I leave my theory 

 in their hands, confident that they will readily perceive many 

 curious analogies, which it would not be complimentary to 

 their sagacity in me to explain. 



