FRANCIS WILLUGHBY. 
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Water Fowl 
Cloven-footed, such as live about waters and 
marshes. 
The greater kind. 
Middle and lesser kinds, with very long bills. 
2. With middle sized bills. 
3. With short bills. 
Water Fowl that swim. 
I. Cloven-footed, some of which may be called 
fin-toed, because they have lateral appendant 
membranes on each side of their toes. 
II. Whole-footed birds. 
1. Such as swim. 
2. Such as have four toes, all webbed together. 
3. Such as have four toes, but the hind one 
separate. 
And first, such as have narrow and sharp pointed 
bills. 
Such as have narrow, serrate, or toothed bills. 
4. Such as have broad bills. 
1. The grouse kind. 
2. The duck kind.”* 
Now, with regard to this system, which, what- 
ever may be its defects, is pronounced by the 
luminous writer of zoology, from whose work it 
is extracted, to be “ the first rational attempt at 
* Neville Wood’s Ornothologist’s Text-book, p. 100. 
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