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orders are formed j which trifling alteration of the Linnaean fyftem, it is hoped, will 

 be found ufeful to ftudents of natural hiftory; perhaps it might have been better to 

 have imitated Mr Latham's plan flill farther, by feparating the Terreftrial from the 

 Aquatic birds- • 



No change whatever is made on the two firft. orders, the Accipitres and Picae. — Be- 

 tween the orders of Anferes and Grallae, an intermediate order is introduced, called, 

 by Mr Latham, Pinnalipcdes, or Fin-footed birds, which differ confiderably both from 

 the Web-footed birds, Palmipedes, and the Ciover.-footed Waders, Grallae. — The order 

 of Web-footed birds, Palmipedes, which anfwers to the Anferes of Linnaeus, is farther 

 fubdivided, but without inftituting an additional order, into fuch as have long legs, 

 and have their feet only half webbed, Scmipalmati, and thofe which are completely 

 webbed and have fhort legs. — The order of Gallinae, which may, in Englifh, be render- 

 ed Poultry, is preferved as in the Linnaean arrangement ; but a fmall number of birds, 

 which differ very effentially from the reft in their characters, are feparated into a di- 

 ftinct order named Strutior.es, as refembling the Oftrich, Strutbio, in characteristic 

 marks. — Laftly, the order of PaJJeres, or fmall birds, is preferved exactly as in the 

 Linnaean divifion of the clafs, except only that the genus of Doves, Columbae, from 

 having very effential characters differing materially from the reft, is placed by itfelf as 

 a feparate order. 



As a translator, the Editor of this Englifh edition of the Animal Kingdom had cer* 

 tainly no right to alter the Linnaean arrangement ; but, inftructed by the examples of 

 Mr Pennant and Mr Latham, he has taken the liberty of fubdividing fome of thefe or- 

 ders, and of altering, in a flight degree, the fituation of a very fmall number of the 

 genera, which he hopes will be of confiderable ufe to the ornithological ftudent. Yetj 

 however much he may be convinced that this alteration was for the better, he certainly 

 fhould not have hazarded any deviation from the plan of the Linnaean fyftem, if Dr 

 Gmelin had not, in repeated inftances, fanctioned this freedom by fimilar alterations, 

 to adapt the fyftem of his great precurfor to the advanced ftate of natural knowledge 

 in which he found it. 



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