SYLVIADiE. — THEIR ANALOGIES. 
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Orders of 
Birds. 
Raptorbs. 
Insbssores. 
Rasorbs. 
Gballatobes. 
Natatores. 
Tribes of 
Perchers. 
Dentirostres. 
Conirostrcs. 
Scansores. 
Tenuirostres. 
Fisstrosires, 
Subfamilies of 
Warblers. 
Analogifs. 
Feed only upon animals. S^lviada:. 
(“Feed on animals and ve. ) ,• 
I gctablcs. i P>‘>‘»>nehna;. 
C Terrestrial, living on the > 
i ground. jSamolms. 
Bill very slender; fTe~~) 
quent the vicinity of > MotaciUim^. 
I 
Pariana. 
(80.) On looking to this second table, it is some- 
what singular, that notwithstanding the analogies of the 
two first subfamilies are made to appear as reversed, 
that they should still possess properties which enable 
them to be compared with either. Indeed, the resem- 
blance between the SyManmsiaAiixtiMyotherinm (which 
latter truly typify the Dentirostres) is so particularly 
strong, that we have not a doubt they mutually repre- 
sent each other in their respective circles. The only 
<luestion is, how, with this strong analogy between 
themselves, they can at the same time represent two 
different tribes of the perchers? The nightingales 
{Philomelinm), in like manner are the unquestionable 
prototypes of the true thrushes (^Merulince); and as these 
latter certainly represent the Conirostrcs in their own 
family, how can the former be also compared to the 
Hentirostrcs ? The only way at present in which we 
can account for this transportation, if such it be, is by 
the property belonging to typical groups of exhibiting 
more than one analogy ; and that a group, for instance, 
which is the representative of the Dentirostres in its 
own circle, may yet represent another group in another 
Circle, whose true analogy is with the Conirostrcs. 
pertain it is, that, however strong the resemblance may 
he between the four first series of this latter table, the 
last is so very obscure, that our suspicion is excited ; 
and we immeiliately perceive that however ingenious, it 
iSj as a whole, but a false and delusive table. Tlie 
analogy of the Pariance to the scansorial order is too 
obvious to be questioned for a moanent ; and dierefore 
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