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pean to an African is more remote than that between 

 a European and a North American Indian ; and both 

 these are exceeded in remoteness by the resemblance 

 which a man has to a monkey. The first are re- 

 semblances of affinity, the latter one is of analogy. 

 These same varieties which we find in the degrees 

 of affinity exist in the degrees of analogy; of this 

 we shall now give a proof. In the following table 

 we shall compare the genera of the Cinnyridce with 

 the tribes of the Insessores, or Perckers; which 

 tribes, as every ornithologist already knows, repre- 

 sent the orders of birds, and consequently the five 

 primary types of vertebrated animals. 



FAMILY CINNYRIDjE. The Sunbirds. 



ANALOGICAL CHARACTERS. 



Genera of the Tribes of the 



Cinnyridce. Insessores. 



I Pre-eminently typical of their J 

 Cinnyris < respective circles, bill > Conirostres. 



( lengthened j 



{Base of the under mandible) 

 thickened, bill shorter and > Dentirostres. 

 stronger j 



fBill short, wings considerably"! 

 Nectarinea .. -j lengthened, the first quill !- Fissirostres. 



I long J 



fBill broad at the base, but veryl 



Diceum < narrow beyond ; wings long; I Tenuirostres. 



(^ legs very weak J 



fBill very strong, the nostrils^ 



Melithreptes -j corneous, feet large and j- Scansores. 

 I strong J 



The conirostral birds ( Conirostres) are well known 

 to be the types of the whole of the Perchers, just as 



