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of Afia and America, as was done 



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tli: plants ; becaufe 



are fo very few g 



which 



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to both of them 



We fhall therefore, at 



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obfervations on the clafTes of animals, to theS 



aquatic birds, and the. new genus of iiih, which we eftablifhed. 

 The renus of petrels, which contains only fix fpecies according to^ 

 Linrta-rus's lad fyilem,- has received an addition of twelve new fpecies. 

 from the Southern feas. The largeil of them is the bird, which 



the Spaniards call the ^^hrantahuefjhs, or ost re Y- petrel j the 





leaft is the. common llormfinch, (Frocellaria pehigica) which is 

 feen alike in the North fea and in the South fea, and in almoft every 

 latitude. Mr. de BrilTon, , whom Mr. de Buffon jufily cenfures 

 for multiplying fpecies,. and fub dividing genera 

 few known fpecies into two genera. 



has divided the 



from fome flidit diffi 



the bill, which is not even worth remarking here. 



At the fame' 



time M. Scopoli,. with as little propriety, unites the diomedea or 

 albatros, with the procellarias 3 and hath been led to this method' 

 of claffing, by a real fpecies of the lafb genus j which, upon what 

 foundation I cannot imagine, hemiftakes for the bird LinniEus calls 

 a DIOMEDEA. Thereare but two circumflances which have occa- 

 fioned the errors of the various naturalifts ; , the one, that they at- 



tached themfelves 



much to the inveftigation of individual (v^- 



cies, without every now and then flopping to take a view of the 



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