lO LOVES MEINIE. 



The eighth, a Circus. 



The ninth, a Buteo. 



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 

 schoolboy 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 cannot 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 two best modern works on orni- 

 thology. In one, it is called " Motacilla rubecula;" 

 in the other, " Rubecula familiaris." 



7. It is indeed one of the most serious, as one of 

 the most absurd, weaknesses, of modern naturalists 

 to imagine that any presently invented nomencla- 

 ture can stand, even were it adopted by the consent 

 of nations, instead of the conceit of individuals. It 

 will take fifty years' digestion before the recently 

 ascertained elements of natural science can permit 

 the arrangement of species in any permanently (even 

 over a limited period) nameable order ; nor then, 

 unless a great man is born to perceive and exhibit 



