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Musicapa Grisola—Lin. Gobe Mouche—Buf. Spotted Fly 
Catcher. 
Sylvia Locustella—Lath. Fauvette Tacheteé —Buf.—This, 
we presume, is the bird of Latham’s new genus, sylvia, which 
corresponds to the motacilla nevia of Gmelin’s Linneus,—that 
is, if the French synonyme be correctly understood. It is an 
elegant little bird, and most beautifully represented. 
Motacilla Sylvia—Lin. Lesser White Throat.—Here must 
be an error. The M. Sylvia of Linneus, is the wéite throat, 
figured and described at page 230 of the work. The sylvia 
sylviella of Latham answers to the white throat. 
Parus Cristatus—Lin. Mesange Huppeé—Buf. Crested 
Titmouse.—This rare and handsome bird, Mr. B. informs us, 
was, with several others, lent to his work by the Honourable 
J. H. Liddle, of Ravensworth Castle, in the county of Durham, 
who possesses a valuable collection of our rarer birds. We are 
much gratified to see a taste for this fascinating study pre- 
vailing amongst others of our young nobility and gentry. 
Tetrao Rufus—Lin. Perdrix Rouge—Buf. Guernsey Par- 
tridge or Red Legged Partridge. 
Hirundo Pratincola—Lin. Perdrix de mer—Buf. Pratin- 
cole, Austrian Pratincole.—Linneus places this bird among 
the Passeres, but describes it as intermediate between the gralle 
and the swallows. Gmelin ranges it with the gralle, under the. 
new genus glareola. 
Tringa Squatarola—Lin, Vanneau Gris—Buf. Grey Plover. 
—This, though a Tringa, (which, according to Mr. B.’s ar- 
rangement, forms one of the genera of water birds) is placed 
amongst the land birds, seemingly because the plover famil 
had been by him included in that great division. It should 
have been a charadrius, if it be what Mr. B. considers it, really 
a plover, and not a sand-piper. Is there not some violence 
done here to the principles of classification, by separating the 
birds of the tringa genus from each other? Indeed the trans- 
formation into water birds of such birds as the oyster catcher, 
sanderling, curlew, whimbrel, woodcock, snipe, knot, heron, 
stork, crane, sand-pipers, &c. has long been a stumbling block 
in our way. They certainly do feed by the sea shore, by the 
margins of lakes and rivers, and in bogs, marshes, and fens ; 
but be it always remembered that they do so with their feet on 
terra firma. None of their habitudes are aquatic in the strict, 
and we conceive the legitimate, sense of that term; they can 
swim with some facility, for a short time, if compelled, but it is 
upon the principle that a horse or an ox swims: it is never 
from choice. Place them on the water, suffer them not to leave 
it, or to touch the land, they could neither feed nor subsist. 
The echassiers (waders), as Cuvier properly enough terms them, 
may be deemed a sort of intermediate link ; but if they belong 
