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ORDER 



9. CETACEA. ^ Whales, warm-blooded animals, which have nothing ia 

 common with cold blooded fishes but the name ; and the natural 

 connexion of which, with mammifera, was correctly remarked even 

 by Ray. 



BIRDS. 



A. LAND BIRDS. 



1. ACCIPITRES. Birds of prey ; with strong hooked beaka, mostly 



with short, strong, knotty feet, and large, crooked, sharp claws 

 the vulture, the falcon, the owl. 



2. LEVIROSTRES.- With short feet ; and very large, thick, but mostly 



hollow, and therefore, light bills parrots, toucans, &c. 



3. PICI, Wii.li short feet; moderately long and small bills, and the 



tongue sometimes worm-shaped, sometimes thread-like the wry 

 aeok, woodpecker, creeper, humming bird, &c. 



4. CORACES With short feet, and the bill moderately long, tolerably 



strong, and convex above ravens, crows, &c. 



5. PASSER ES. The singing birds, with swallows, c. The feet short, 



the bill more or less conical, pointed, and of various length and 

 thickness. 



6. GALLINJ3. Birds with short feet, the bill somewhat convex above, 



and having a fleshy membrane at the base the pigeon, the part- 

 ridge, the pheasant, the peacock, the common cock, &c. 



7. STRUTHIONES.- Large land birds unsuited for flying the ostrich, 



cassowary, and dodo. 



(B ) WATER BIRDS. 



8. GRALL./E. Birds found in marshes with long feet ; long, and almost 



cylindrical bills, and generally a long neck the heron, the bittern, 

 the plover, the rail, &c. 



9. ANSERES. Swimming birds with oar-like feet ; a short bill covered 



with skin, generally serrated at the edge, and terminated at the 

 extremity of the upper jaw by a little hook the swan, goose, duck, 

 and the various species of sea fowl. 



AMPHIBIA. 



1. REPTILES. Amphibia with four feet tortoises, frogs, lizard*, 



2. SERPENTES, Serpents without any external organs of motion. 



