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after the "Falcon tribe, on account of their ferocity*, but takes in 

 •only the birds recorded by 2?«y, withfuch foreign fpecies as are 

 analogous thereto f. M. Brijfon, on the contrary, puts them at 

 the head of his fifth order, along with the Thrufhes and Chatterers j 

 both of them truly belonging to the Pajferine order of moft 

 fyftematifts. 



Sir C. -Linnaus, in refpedl to this matter, has held at different 

 times more opinions than one. In his Fauna Suec. of 1746, fofe 

 ■ makes it & Chatterer (Pajferine) ; and in his laft edition of this book, 

 he brings back the Chatterer to his Lamm, then firft formed into a 

 genus, and placed in the Accipitrine order, taking in two fpecies of 

 ■Titmice^.. In both the tenth and twelfth editions of the Syjlema 

 .Nature, this Author has added considerably to this genus,; in the 

 .•firft, returning the Titmice to their proper place ; and in the laft, 

 throwing the Chatterers into a feparate genus, and this with the ut- 

 •moft propriety : but, notwithftanding he has ranked the Lanius 

 genus among the Accipitres, it is not without a particular note |j, 

 confeffing his fentiments to be wavering; and it is moft likely, 

 that had he lived to utter another edition, we fliould have ken 



* If ferocioufnefs alone ferve as a character, why not bring in the Tyrant of 

 America, ranked by him among the Flycatchers ? a bird infinitely more audacious 

 than any of the Shrikes, giving law to the Eagle himfelf; and on this account, as 

 well as the conformity of bill, &c. ranked by Linnaus moftjuftly with the -Lanius 

 genus. 



f Yet he fays that the Pie-grieche and Pie ought to be ranked together. " Je 

 penfe que tous deux pourroient n'en faire qu"un, les Pies convenant en beaucoup 

 de chofes avec les Pie-grieches." Hiji. des Oi/.i. p. ,309. 



I The Long-tailed Titmou/e and the Manakin. 



|| " Lanii accedunt Accipitribus laniena, Picis moribus, Pafferibus flatura, 

 -adeoque inter hos medii." Sty?. Nat. ed.xz. p. 134, note at bottom. 



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