CLASS XVI. 

 BIRDS {AV^Sy. 



Birds are vertebrate, warm-'bloocled, oviparous animals that 

 breathe by means of hmgs. Their heart has two ventricles and 

 two auricles. Their bill projects forwards, is covered wath horn 



^ Of the numerous works on birds we here notice some of the most distinguished : 



Belon VHistoire de la Nature des Oyseaux avec leurs descriptions et naifs portraicts, 

 Paris, 1555, folio. 



B,AJi Synopsis methodica Avium, Londini, 171 3, 8vo. 



Briss. ; — Beisson Ornitholo()ia sive synopsis ineihodica sistens Avium divislonem. 

 Cum figuris aen., Parisiis, 1760, 6 Vols. 4to. (French and Latin text; very good and 

 numerous figures.) 



Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, 3 Parts, London, 1781, 4to,- Supplement, ibid, 

 1792 — 1802, 2 Vols. Index O7'nifhologic us, Londini, 1790, 2 Vols. 



Bdff. pi. enl. — De Buffon Hist. nat. des Oiseaux. (The plates, generally cited 

 under the title of Planches enluminees, are coloured plates, drawn and engraved by the 

 same artist, Martinet, who executed the figures of Brisson's work. They are 984 

 in number, and are subjoined to an edition from the Imprimerie royale, 1770 — 1786 

 (10 parts, in 4to or small folio). 



Temm. pi. col. — C. J. Temminck et Metffren Laugier Nouveau Recueil de 

 Planches coloriees d' Oiseaux pour servir de suite aux Planches enl. de Buffon, Paris, 

 1838, 5 Vols, (in 4to or small folio, published from 1820 — 1838, 600 plates in 102 

 numbers). — A third collection of coloured plates, to serve as the completion of the two 

 former, was begun in 1845, under the title of Iconographie ornithologique. Nouveait 

 Pecueil general de Planches peintes d' Oiseaux, par 0. Des Mors. It was concluded 

 with the first part (72 plates) in 1849, or at least has been interrupted hitherto. 



R. P. Lesson Traite d'Omithologie, Paris, 1831, 8vo, i Vol. and Atlas. — The 

 plates, which are taken from the Diet, des Sc. nat. in 60 Vols., surpass most of the 

 rest in that well-known work, and will be often cited by us. 



For the birds of Europe we note : 



C. J. Temminck Manuel d'Omithologie, 2nd edition, 4 Parties, Paris, 1820 — 

 1840, 8vo. 



J. A. Naumann's Naturgesch. der Vogel Beufuchlands, umgearheilct von J. F. 

 Naumann, 8vo, Leipzig, 1822 — 1844. 12 Thle. (with 337 very accurate, coloured 

 plates; of this work some supplements have appeared subsequently.) 



As a systematic review of this extensive class there apjieared not long ago G. E. 

 Gray The genera of Birds. Illustrated ivith ^i^ plates. 3 Vols. 4to, London, 1844 

 —1849. 



A chief work for the physiology of birds is still F. Tiedemann Anatomie und 

 Naturgesch. der Vogel, 2 Bde, Heidelberg, 1810, 181 1, 8vo, being the second and third 



