III. THE DABCHICKS. lOI 



GoiiJd's practical and natural arrangement, I 

 can ^t once throw together in groups, easily 

 comprehensible by British children, all they 

 are ever likely to see of British or Britain- 

 visitant birds : which I find fall, with frank 

 casting, into these following divisions, not in 

 any important matters varying from the usual 

 ones, and therefore less offensive, I hope, to 

 the normal zoologist than my heresies in 

 botany ; while 3'et they enable me to make 

 what I have to say about our native birds 

 more simply presentable to young minds,* 



88. 1. The Hawks come first, of course, 

 massed under the single Latin term * Falco,' 

 and next them, 



2. The Owi.S second, also of course, — un- 

 mistakeable, these two tribes, in all types of 

 form, and ways of living. 



3. The Swallows I put next these, being 

 connected with the owls by the Goatsucker, 

 and with the falcons by their flight. 



4. Tlie Pies next, whose name has a curious 

 double meaning, derived partly from the notion 



* See the notes on classification, in the Appendix to the 

 volume ; published, together with the Preface, simultaneously 

 with this numlx:r. 



