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LINN.EUS'S 
DIVISION OF THE ORDER 
ACCIPITRES 
INTO 
GENERA3 
3. "VuLTUB.: Rostrum rectum apice ad uncum. 
Caput impenne antice nuda cute. 
Lingua bifida. 
Collum retractile. 
2. FjiLco. 
3. Stbix. 
4. Lanius. 
Rostrum aduncum Lasi ccra instructum. (1) 
Caput pennis arete tectum. 
Lingua bifida. 
Rostrum aduncum (absque cera). (2) 
Nares oblongae, pennis setaceis recumbentibus 
obtectae. 
Caput grande auribus oculisque magnis. 
Lingua bifida.j 
Rostrum rectiusculum dente utrinque yersus 
apicem basi nudum. 
Lingua lacera. 
Latham divides the Order Accipitres simply into Genera, as 
Linnaeus has done, but he has removed the Genus Lanius to the 
succeeding Order, like Guvier; whilst Bechstein, Temminck, and 
others, retain it in the present. 
(1) Latham also retains this as a distinct character of tbe Genus 
Falco^ whereas it is evidently common to the Genus Vulturaiso. 
(2) The cera exists in this Genus, covered wholly, or in part, with stiff 
hairs. Latham subdivides this Genus into auriculatce and inauriculatce ; 
the other Genera present no subdivisions, and thus the traveller, for it 
may be no inconvenience to the Ornithologist, is perhaps obliged to 
search through 41 closely printed 4to. pages to find a species of Falco. The 
admirable sagacity and laborious observation of Linnaeus, although he 
founded his system on the exterior of animals, led him to foresee many 
of the peculiarities of their interior construction, which the science of 
Cuvier has demonstrated as the bases of a natural system , and most of 
the Genera of the former will be recognised in the Families of the 
latter. 
