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o 



R 



G 



A 



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C 



B 



O 



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E 



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of him : he is therefore 



altered from his ftate of 



the 



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leaft i is probably inferior in all the fenfitive faculties to any wild 

 dog ', (which may perhaps be owing to his food) and certainly, in 

 no degree, partakes of the fagacity and quick perception of our re- 

 fined variety. Among the wild birds, the varieties are very few : 

 two fpecies of pigeons, two of parrots, one of king-fifliers, and 



KINGDOM 



the only I know of, that vary any 



to be doubted, with regard 



d it is much 



one or two of fly-catchers, 

 thing in different ifles ; ai 



to fome of them, whether what we count varieties are not either 



diflin<ft fpecies, or only different fexes of one and the fame ; cir- 



h 



cumflances, which it is well known, require a long feries of ob~ 



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fervations, not to be made on a curfory view. The varieties in 

 other clafTes are ftill lefs confiderable. 



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IV. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



The animals of the South-Seas, as vv'e have already obferyed, are 

 mofl of them new fpecies. The known ones between the tropics, 

 are chiefly fuch as are generally found all over the maritime parts of 

 the torrid zone -, thofe of the temperate zone being principally 



quati 



are common to thofe latitudes 



y fea 



onfifl of 



European fp 



Upon the whole, we found no more than two 



genera, which are diflind from thofe already knov/n, and all the 

 remaining fpecies rank under old genera. But it is not poiTible to 



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