•BIRD £ 



421 



CHARACTERS 



OF THE 



GENERA OF BIRDS. 



4. Shrike. 



I. ACCIPITRES, or RAPACIOUS BIRDS. 



The bill is hooked at the end ; and the head is 



naked. 

 The bill is hooked at the end, and its bafe is 

 covered with a naked membrane. 

 The end of the bill only is hooked, and its bafe has 



a beard of long briftles. 

 Of great fize, and moftly having hairy or feathery 



legs. 

 Of fmaller fize, with naked feet. 

 The bill is hooked at the end, and has a frontlet 



of reverfed briftles. 

 The bill is almoft ftraight, and is notched near 

 the end. 



'1. Vulture. 1. Vultur. 41. * 



2. Falcon. 2. Falco. 42. 



* Baftard-eagles. Gypaeti. 



** Eagles-. Aquilae. 



'*** Hawks. Fa/cones. 



3. Owl. 3. Strix. 43. 



4. Lanius. 44. 



II. PIC^, or PIES. 



* With perching feet. 

 ■10. Beef-eater, f 8. Buphaga. 48. A ftraight quadrangular bill. 



12. 



* The three fets of numerals employed in this edition, to the genera of birds, are to be thus un- 

 derstood : The numerals prefixed to the Englifh name of each- genus marks its order in the clafs of 

 birds of this edition : The numeral prefixed to the Latin name of the genus fhews the order of ar- 

 rangement followed in Dr Gmelin's edition of the Syftema Naturae ; and where that numeral is 

 wanting, the genus has been added from Latham's Index Ornithologicus : The numeral which fol- 

 lows the Latin name is prefixed to each genus by Dr Gmelin, as a running number of the genus in 

 the Animal Kingdom ; -where that is wanting, and at the fame time a numeral precedes the Latin 

 name, the genus has been added by Dr Gmelin. — T. 



f It may be neceflary to remark, that the apparent confufion of the running numbers of the ge- 

 nera 



