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gance and symmetry, their beauty and delicacy of colour, 

 their peculiar habits and oeconomy, or the wonderful adap- 

 tion of their parts for their different modes of living, we 

 shall have sufficient cause for adoring the wisdom of their 

 benevolent Creator, 



No contrast can be greater than the tribes of Quadrupeds 

 and Birds ; still there is a certain coincidence in several 

 classes, that point out the same propensities and habits, and 

 evince that, though different in form, the respective classes 

 fill up a very similar space, and effect nearly the same ob- 

 jects in their different spheres. If we compare the Eagle 

 with the Lion 5 the Vulture with the Hytena ; the whole 

 tribe of Passerenes with the Rat, Squirrel, and others of 

 the same nature; the extensive family of Parrots, with the 

 equally numerous, noisy, restless and entertaining tribe of 

 Monkeys ; the Gallinacious tribe with that of the Sheep, 

 Goat, and Deer ; the Guelimots, Penguins, Puffins, 

 (Sec, with the Walrus, the Sf.al, and Monati, — we must 

 feel pleased at viewing the same general outline in their 

 habits and ceconomy, their modes of procuring, and kinds of 

 food; their tempers and di^ipositions not dissimilar; their 

 number of young correspondinj; or nearly so, tlie number of 

 their natural enemies alwajs corresponding in both classes 

 with their greater or lesser increase ; — the harmony existing 

 throughout the whole, affords a pleasing theme for contem- 

 plation. 



Birds are divisible into two grand or piimary Orders, the 

 Carnivorotis and Granivorous ; these aie again divided into 

 Carnivorous, or those that feed on ilesh ; Piscivorous, 



