exceptionable, and he may advance some mistaken 

 observations, yet the ornithology of so distant a 

 country as Carniola is 

 very curious. Men 

 that undertake only 

 one district are much 

 more likely to advance 

 natural knowledge than 

 those that grasp at 

 more than they can 

 possibly be acquainted 

 with: every kingdom, 

 every province should 

 have its own monog- 

 rapher. 



The reason perhaps 

 why he mentions noth- 

 ing of Ray's Or- 

 nithology " is the ex- 

 treme poverty and dis- 

 tance of his country, 



A " rookstarver,^ 



into which the works 



of our great naturalist may never yet have found 

 their way. You have doubts, I know, whether this 

 Ornithologv " is genuine, and really the work of 

 Scopoli: as to myself, I think I discover strong 

 tokens of authenticity ; the stvle corresponds with 

 that of his Entomologia ; " and his characters of the 

 ordines and genera are many of them new, express- 



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