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the hind toe moderately 

 long. 



Nightingale, Hedge- Sparrow ^Sedge* 

 birdy White 'Throaty Wheat Ear^ 

 Black Cap^ Red Starts Rchin^ 

 Wren^ G olden- crejled Wren^ &c. 

 49 fpecies. 



105. Alauda. Lark. Beak fubulated ; tongue 



bifid \ claw of the hin- 

 der toe very long. 

 Sky 'Larky Tit- Lark ^ Wood-Lark^ 

 &c. 11 fpecies. 



106. Sturnus. Starling, Beak fubulate, but flat-" 



ted at the apex, and 

 marginated. 

 Starlings Water Oufel^ Sec, 5 fpe* 

 cics. 



104. CoLUMBA* Pigeon, Beak rather arched, orl 



convex ; noftrils gib- 

 bofe, and half covered 

 with a membrane. 

 Wood Pigeon^ and its defcendant 

 the Common, Ring Dove^ T ur-^^ 

 tie Bovey Migratory^ dec, 40 

 fpecies. 



The fpecific charafters in the clafs of birds are 

 deduced from a great variety of particulars. la 

 feveral, as in the Falcon genus, the colour of the 

 cere, or naked tunic that furrounds the bafis of 

 the beaky and the colour of the legs, alTifl in diftin-. 

 guilliing the fpecies. The colour of the bird in 

 general is fubjecb to great variation in different 

 countries, as well as in the fame country at dif- 



G % ferent 



