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pean to an African is more remote than that between 
a European and a North American Indian ; and both 
these are exceeded in remoteness by the resemblance 
which a man has to a monkey. The first are re- 
semblances of affinity, the latter one is of analog)'. 
These same varieties which we find in the degrees 
of affinity exist in the degrees of analogy ; of this 
we shall now give a proof. In the following table 
we shall compare the genera of the Cinnyriilce with 
the tribes of the Insessores, or Perchers ; which 
tribes, as every ornithologist alreAly knows, repre- 
sent the orders of birds, and consequently the five 
primary types of vertebrated animals. 
FAMILY CINNYRIDjE The Simlirds. 
Tribes of the 
Insessores. 
ANALOGICAL CHARACTERS. 
Genera of the 
Cinnyridce. 
( Pre-eminently typical of their ) 
Cinnyris, ■< respective circles, hill j- Conirostres. 
( lengthened ) 
( Base of the under mandible j 
Antkreptes.. •< thickened, bill shorter and > Dentirostres. 
( stronger ) 
r Bill short, wings considerably' 
Nectarinea „ -j lengthened, the first quill 
Bill broad at the base, but very' 
narrow beyond ; wings long; 
legs very weak 
Bill very strong, the nostrils 
corneous, feet large and 
strong. 
Diceum., 
Melithreptes 
Fissirostres. 
Tenuirostres. 
Scansores. 
The conirostral birds ( Conirostres ) are well known 
to be the types of the whole of the Perchers, just as 
