ZOOLOGY. ia 



gance and symmetry, their beauty and delicacy of colour, 

 their peculiar habits and occonomy, or the wonderful adap- 

 tion of their parts for their different modes of living, we 

 shall have sufficient cause for adoring the wisdom of their 

 benevolent Creator. 



No contrast can be greater than the tribes of Quadrupeds 

 and Birds ; still there is a certain coincidence in several 

 classes, that point out the same propensities and habits, and 

 evince that, though dilferent in form, the respective classes 

 £11 up a very similar space, and eflfect nearly the same ob- 

 jects in their different spheres. If we compare the Eagle 

 with the Lion ; the Vulture with the Hy^ENA ; the whole 

 tribe of Passerenes with the Rat, Squirrel, and others of 

 the same nature ; the extensive family of Parrots, with the 

 equally numerous, noisy, restless and entertaining tribe of 

 Monkeys ; the Gallinacious tribe with that of the Sheep, 

 Goat, and Deer ; the Guelimots, Penguins, Puffins, 

 &c., with the Walrus, the Seal, and Monati, — we must 

 feel pleased at viewing the same general outline in their 

 habits and oeconomy, their modes of procuring, and kinds of 

 food; their tempers and dispositions not dissimilar; their 

 number of young corresponding or nearly so, the number of 

 their natural enemies alwajs corresponding in both classes 

 with their greater or lesser increase ; — the harmony existing 

 throughout the whole, aflbrds a pleasing theme for contem- 

 plation. 



Birds are divisible into two grand or primary Orders, the 

 farnivurous a.nd Granivorous ; these aie again divided into 

 .Carnivoeous, or those that feed on flesh ; Pjscivouols, 



