ORNITHOLOGY. 
TABLE of the Orders of Birds according to Mr. Latham. 
Ind. Orn. Syn. of Birds. 
Div. J. Div. I. 
I. Accipitres - - Rapacious 
TI. Pice - - - = ies. 
III. Pafferes - - - Paflerine 
TV. Columbe - - olumbine. 
V. Galline - - = Gallinaceous. 
VI. Struthiones - - Struthious. 
Div. II. Div. II. 
VII. Gralle - - - Waders. 
VIII. Pinnatipedes - - Pinnated-feet. 
IX. Palmipedes - - Web-footed. 
For another mode of claflification we refer our readers 
Pennant, entitled Struthious; whereas Latham confiders them 
only as part of an order, with which he claffes, as feparate 
genera, the Caffuarius or caflowary, and the Rhea, or Ame- 
rican oftrich, which, as will be feen hereafter, are but 
{pecies of the genus Struthio, in the Linnzan method. 
“Again, Pennant and Latham devote their fourth order to 
the genus Columba of Linnzus, who confiders it only one 
of feventeen of the Pafferine tribe. So that, as is feen in 
the table, the order Paffieres of Linnzus includes the Co-, 
lumbine and Pafferine orders of the other naturalifts, who 
likewife include the Galline of Linneus in their Gallina- 
Such are the outline of, and diftin€tion between, the feveral 
fyftems ufually referred to as ftandards in this “country, and 
which, on that account, we have been particular in explaining. 
We may now briefly mention fome other writers in this 
: : y 
From both, however, it has been inferred, that the feathered 
tribes in Mexico are numerous, and diverfified with the moft 
Marceorar : atever he may have bee 
neator of botanical fubjedts, his plates in ornithology are 
badly executed, and very frequently they do not correipond 
with the defcriptions. See MARCGRAVIA. 
Sir Hans Sloane, who was the affociate and friend of 
Boyle and Ray, publifhed in 1707 the firft volume of his 
Hiftory of Jamaica, but the fecond did not make its ap- 
pearance till the year 1725. In this hiftory he has given 
reprefentations of 44 fpecies of birds, but no great reliance 
can be don the accuracy of his delineations. 
Mr. Mark Catefby, of whom we have given a pretty full 
account in the 7th volume of the Cyclopedia, publifhed 
an excellent defcription of the birds of Carolina, Florida,. 
and the Bahama iflands, in French and Englifh : it makes a 
ed. 1e plates, 
which are numerous, are generally faithful reprefentations 
of the originals, and admirably coloured. 
Schwenckfel, who publifhed his Natural ae of ca 
but he chiefly dwells on the rare an 
He generally follows the Linnzan nomenclature, and fome- 
times the fynonymy of Briffon. 
M. Sonnerat publithed, in 1796, an account of his voyage 
to New Guinea, the Molucca, and the Philippine iflands, the 
Ifle of France, &c. and in 1783 h i hi 
fecond voyage to feveral p 
China. This very intelligent traveller exhibits a confider- 
able thare of accuracy and tafte; and befides correcting 
the errors of thofe who had preceded him, he has noticed 
a confiderable number of birds for the firft time, and moft 
of them remarkable for their fingularity and beauty. His 
account of the wild cock and hen, the origin of our com- 
mon domettic fowls, is a very interefting article, 
John Leonard Frifch, a German naturalift, was, as we 
any other works, of one en- 
than life. Th 
the different colourings 
{pecies. 
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