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Orders of Tribes of Subfamilies of 
Birds. Perchers. Analogies. Warblers. 
RAPTORES. Dentirostres. | Feed only upon animals, Sylviade. 
InsEssorEs. — Conirostres. ecb a ssiargihae i Philomeline. 
= erieanae ena living on ee Sivgpateas 
Bill very slender; fre- 
GRALLATORES. Tenuirostres. } quent the vicinity off Motacilline. 
water, 
NATATORES. Fissirostres. ee ? 
a——=  Pariane. 
(80.) On looking to this second table, it is some- 
what singular, that notwithstanding the analogies of the 
two first subfamilies are made to appear as reversed, 
that they should still possess properties which enable 
them to be compared with either. Indeed, the resem- 
blance between the Sylviane and the Myotherine (which 
latter truly typify the Dentirostres) is so particularly 
strong, that we have not a doubt they mutually repre- 
sent each other in their respective circles. The only 
question is, how, with this strong analogy between 
themselves, they can at the same time represent two 
different tribes of the perchers? The nightingales 
(Philomeling), in like manner are the unquestionable 
prototypes of the true thrushes (Meruline); and as these 
latter certainly represent the Conirostres in their own 
family, how can the former be also compared to the 
Denitirostres? The only way at present in which we 
can account for this transportation, if such it be, is by 
the property belonging to typical groups of exhibiting 
more than one analogy ; and that a group, for instance, 
which is the representative of the Dentirostres' in its 
own circle, may yet represent another group in another 
circle, whose true analogy is with the Conirostres. 
Certain it is, that, however strong the resemblance may 
‘be between the four first series of this latter table, the 
last is so very obscure, that our suspicion is excited ; 
and we immediately perceive that however ingenious, it 
is, as a whole, but a false and delusive table. The 
analogy of the Pariane to the scansorial order is too 
obvious to be questioned for a moment; and therefore 
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