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every one, the falx for its beak, and every one, flesh for 

 its prey. Do you suppose the unhappy student is to be 

 allowed to call them all eagles, or all falcons, to begin 

 ^^-ith, as would be the first condition of a wise nomencla- 

 ture, establishing resemblance by specific name, before 

 marking variation by individual name? Ko such luck. 

 I hold you up the plates of the thirteen birds one by one, 

 and read you their names off the back : — 



The first is an Aquila. 



The second, a ITalioetus. 



The third, a Milvus. 



The fourth, a Pandion. 



The fifth, an Astur. 



The sixth, a Falco. 



The seventh, a Pernis. 



The eighth, a Circus. 



The ninth, a Br.teo. 



The tenth, an Archibuteo. 



The eleventh, an Accipiter. 



The twelfth, an Erythropus. 



And the thirteenth, a Tinnunculus. 

 There's a nice little lesson to entertain a parish school- 

 boy with, beginning his natural history of birds ! 



6. There are not so many varieties of robin as of hawk, 

 but the scientific classifiers are not to be beaten. If they 

 canu(^t find a number of similar birds to give different 

 names to, they will give two names to the same one. 



Here are two pictures of your own redbreast, out of the 

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