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Part II, Synopses of Systems. 



WILLUGHBY'S SYSTEM. 1678. 



Land Fowl. 

 Rapacious Diurnal Birds. [Order Baptores*, 

 Family Laniadce and Cuculidcs]. 



Rapacious Nocturnal Birds. [Fam. Strigida 

 and Vociferatoridca, mini]. 

 Crow Kind. [Corvidce]. 



Woodpecker Kind. [Picidce and Certhiadce.] 

 Poultry Kind. {Pliasianidcs, Tetraonklce and 

 Crex] . 

 Pigeon Kind. [Columbida]. 

 Thrush Kind. [Merulida, Cinclus, Starniis]. 

 Small Birds with Slender Bills. [Alauda, Hi- 

 rundinid(B, Sylviadcs]. 



Small Birds with thick and short bills. \Frin- 

 gillida]. 



Water Fowl. 



Cloven-footed, such as live about waters and 



marshes. 



The Greater Kind. [Gruida, Ardeida], 



Middle and Lesser Kinds with very long bills. 



[Numejiius, Scolopax, Limosa, Tetanus, (Edicne- 



mus, Hcematopus]. 



2, With middle-sized bills. 

 [Machetes, Totanus, Tringa, Arenaria, Alcedo]. 



3. With short bills. 

 [Vanellus, Charadrius, Hcematopus]. 



* Mr. Vigors's quinary groups are put in editorial brackets, to 

 point out the species included in Willughby's divisions. 



