6 love's MEINIE. 



one useful fact, surpass all caricature. I have 

 in my hand thirteen plates of thirteen species 

 of eagles ; eagles all, or hawks all, or falcons 

 all — whichever name you choose for the great 

 race of the hook-headed birds of prey — some 

 so like that you can't tell the one from the 

 other, at the distance at which I show them 

 to you, all absolutely ahke in their eagle or 

 falcon character, having, 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 with, as would be the first condition 

 of a wise nomenclature, establishing resem- 

 blance by specific name, before marking varia- 

 tion by individual name ? No 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 Halieetus. 



The third, a Milvus. 



The fourth, a Pandion. 



The fifth, an Astur. 



The sixth, a Falco. 



The seventh, a Pernis. 



