ORNITHOLOGY. 
This work is faid to be ve. accurate wit 
Willoughby, and much more copious; and though not free 
from errors, holds a ieee be rank in the library of the 
ornithologitt. 
The Natural Hittory of Birds by the Comte de Buffon, and 
oy learned friends, is defeCtive in arrangement, but the ftyle 
the work is popular, luminous, and even elegant, and 
the plates add greatly to its value. ‘It poffefles many 
qualities that recommend it to public a : it exhibits 
a clear and comprehenfive view of the 
g , yet he derived very im- 
slay oe Gon. his friends. The learned and elo- 
aay ae 
third volume was nearly 
mplete ew affiftance was received from the com- 
munications a ‘he celebrated 
from his travels paffed fome days with 
aris. Sonnini’s edition of Buffon’s Natural Hiftory con- 
cae eg valuable additions, and forms, perhaps, one of 
e 
a 
figures of every bird to w 
Mr. Pennant aaa a {mall ia — “Genera of 
Birds.’ e preface to this nters into a mi- 
nute account of the external parts of bee nae _ 
fowl, the Gralle a 
generical arrangement, pu 
der he has given in his feveral divifions, excepting in thofe 
of his Anferes and a few o For, after the 
cloven-footed water-fowl, and the web-footed. 
and land-birds with wings ufelefs for flight, I place as 
diftincd order. The trumpeter, or ee of Linnzus, ad 
the buftards, I place at the end o 
all are land-birds ; the firft mula, like the generality 
of the gallinaceous tribe ; the lat ea nhanzer {wift run- 
ners, avoiders of wet places ; and both have bills fomewhat 
arched. It muft be confefled, that both have legs naked 
above the knees; and the lait, like the waders, lay but 
few eggs. They feem 
with each other, and it is hoped tha y 
be indulged the toleration Aa poe chem as faite his own 
Birds, a worke 
each genus by one coloured riligk pla ] 
of fome rare {pecie r. m was likewsle author 
of an “Index Or ithologicus,"* in two volumes quarto, 
wa 
vay ogift. Having f a 
guifhed naturalifts in this department of fcience, we fhall 
give, in view, their modes of claffification, that 
the reader may, with a pee of his eye, almoft compare 
them with one another 
P 
difcourfes, the accuracy OF ie pee. and references, 
and the correct execution of the plates. In the year 1773 
f Divifion I. [ 
Order I. Baeeeiouy - | g | Accipitres. 
( Divifion I. II. Pie R ice. 
fAcdpitres, According to Pen- Land Birds. Iv. Ce en 4 Palle, 
ta the U aaean Pree nant there are nine V. Paflerine - - | | Pafferes. 
fyftem there are fix } Anferes. rders, in two divi Vi. Shins <5 Galline 
Grlers Gf birds 5 Cralle fions, which an{wer 4 < 52 2 )Gralle. 
"| Gallin ie Divdoa li $ 
(Paffe . neus, as in the fub- : & 
° joined method. “os VIT. Cloven-footed c 
Divifion II. of Waders. ; 4 ee 
| Water Fowl. VIII. Pinnated-feet - | "3 Gralle, 
Anferes. 
L IX. Web-footed - J L Gralle. 
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