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genera, and he trusts it will be found that he has only retained those which are really 
distinct ; and whilst he has, after due consideration, thought it requisite to add to 
the number of those which British ornithologists usually employ, he has at the same 
time reduced those too numerous genera of certain authors, and especially of the 
Prince of Canino. Likewise, with regard to subgenera, the use of which the author 
must always maintain to be extremely disadvantageous to science, he has wholly 
omitted all notice of them. 
Class II. AVES. 
Subclass I. Aves ConstRIcTIPEDES. 
Division I. TERRESTRES. 
Order I. Raprores. 
Tribe ]. Planicerirostres, 
Subtribe 1. Diurni, 
Family 1. Sarcoramphide. 
Genus Neophron. 
Family 2. Vulturide. 
Genus Gyps. 
Family 3. Aquilide. 
Genera Haliaétus, Aquila, Pan- 
dion. 
Family 4. Falconide. 
Genera Falco, Accipiter, Astur, 
Milvus, Nauclerus. 
Family 5. Buteonide. 
Genera Buteo, Pernis, Circus, 
Strigiceps. 
Tribe 2. Tecticerirostres. 
Subtribe 2. Nocturni. 
Family 1. Strigide. 
Genera Surnia, Nyctea, Strix, 
Syrnium, Athene. 
Family 2. Bubonide. 
Genera Bubo, Otus, Scops. 
*Order IIT. Insessorzs. 
Tribe 1. Curvirostres. 
Subtribe 1. Scansores. 
Family Cuculide. 
Genera Cuculus, Oxylophus, 
Coccyzus. 
“Tribe 2. Cuneirostres. 
Family 1. Picide. 
Genera Dryotomus, Picus, Jynx. 
Family 2. Sittide. 
Genus Sitta. 
Tribe 3. Conirostres. 
Subtribe 2. Clamatores. 
Family 1. Coraciadide. 
Genus Coracias. 
Family 2. Corvide. 
Genera Garrulus, Pica, Nuci- 
Fraga, Corvus, Fregilus. 
Subtribe 3. Cantatores. 
Family 3. Sturnida. 
Genera Sturnus, Pastor, Age- 
laius. 
Family 4. Loviade. 
Genera Lozia, Pyrrhula, Cory- 
thus, Coccothraustes. 
Family 5. Fringillide. 
Genera Passer, Linota, Car-= 
duelis, Fringilla. 
Family 6. Emberizide. 
Genera LEmberiza, 
hanes. 
Family 7. Alaudide. 
Genera Phileremus, Alauda, Ga 
lerida. 
Plectro« 
Tribe 4. Dentirostres. . 
Family 1. Anthide. 
Genus Anthus. 
Family 2. Motacilliide. 
Genera Budytes, Motacilla. 
Family 3. Paride. 
Genera Calamophilus, Mecis- 
tura, Parus. 
Family 4. Aedonide. 
Genera Regulus, Melizophilus, 
Sylvia, Curruca, Aedon, Sa- 
licaria, Accentor. 
Family 5. Sazicolide. 
Genera Phenicura, Erithacus, 
Sazicola, Vitiflora. 
Family 6. Ampelidide. 
Genus Bombycilla. 
Family 7. Merulide. 
Genera Oriolus, Hematornis, 
Turdus, Petrocincla, Merula, 
Cinelus. 
Subtribe 4, Latrones. 
Family 8. Laniade. 
Genera Lanius, Collurio. 
Family 9. Muscicapide. 
Genus Muscicapa. 
Tribe 5. Tenuirostres. 
Subtribe 5. Anisodactyli. 
Family 1. Certhiade. 
Genera Troglodytes, Certhia. 
Family 2. Upupide. 
Genus Upupa. 
Tribe 6. Fissirostres. 
Subtribe 6. Syndactyli. 
Family 1. Halcyonide. 
Genus Alcedo. 
Family 2. Meropide. 
Genus Merops. 
* The author’s Order II. Prekensores entirely consists of foreign birds, which belong to the 
Genus Psittacus of Linnzus. His proposed divisions of this order are given in Jameson’s 
Edinburgh Phil. Journal for July, 1846, 
