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brane ; eject a milky substance from the craw to feed 

 their young. — Montague. Ornithol. Diet, Introduction. 



Order V. Gallin^e. 



Cock tithes. Analogy between their stomachs and the 

 structure of corn-mills. — Paley, 287. Margin of the 

 upper mandible folds over the inferior. 



Order VI. Struthiones. 



Ostrich triles. The wings of the ostrich are unfit for flying : 

 the feathers are not compacted in their laminae like 

 those of other birds. 



DIVISION II. Water Fowl. 



Order VII. Grall/e. 

 TVaders. Cloven footed. In water fowl the oil bag U 

 particularly conspicuous. 



Order VIII. Grall^. 

 IVaders. Pinnated feet. 



Order IX. Anseres. 

 Web footed. Dentated filtering bill of the duck, furnish-* 

 cd with large nerves, enabling it minutely to examine 

 the liquids containing its food, and probably increasing 

 its gratification.— Paley, 241. 



N. B. I have noticed but cursorily the orders, and have 

 omitted the ninety-six genera of birds, as my object is to 

 illustrate the proposed plan, and not in this place to attempt 

 a completion of the necessary detail. In touching on other 

 •:!as¥es I shall accordingly be still more concise. 



CLASS III. AMPHIBIA. 

 Heart with one ventii?Ie, and one auricle. The blood cold 

 and red. Animals of this class respire at will with lungs ; 

 have no molares or grinding teeth. 



OpDER I. Chiefly inhabit land, but occasionally water. 

 II. Chiefly the water, but occasionally the land. 



Crocodile?, 



