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_ ON THE CLASSIFICATION OP BIUDS. 
'’rtany of the descriptions are 
been St!T "^““'■porated which have 
Afrla LeVaillantin 
fic ent in *is work is unavoidably de- 
neine , nf " discoveries, and defective in 
an^wh r® described by former writers, 
sene a? s T “"q^^-^donably the besj 
mav fL r ""dhology at present existing. It 
be n the possession of every one who is desirous of investi- 
ga ing species. t may be as weU to observe, that the 
of nltl T!’ consists entirely 
of plates; but the hgures are so extremely rude and in- 
accurate that they deserve not to be consulted or quoted 
over Buifon, whose Ornithology, with all its defects 
^ust ever be regarded as a standard authority. He was 
the first to describe those numerous specie! which are 
S 7 ‘ /^“”c/icj Eulumin^e», and which are 
copied into our English systems. The best edition we 
have seen of Huffon is that edited by Sonnini, on account 
ot the notes and remarks upon the birds of Ouiana 
which the latter was able to insert from his original ob.! 
^rvations 1 he system of Brisson is now, like that of liis 
oryelebrated countryman, obsolete ; but, as nearly all 
remarllTJ^’^®”" specimens, and are 
cZtli accurate, the work is very useful as one of 
tation. 1 he following are the titles of the books 
here recommended. 
I-atio and French. Pan' 
I is. 1760. 
^Synopsis Methodica, sistens Avium 
Brisson. Ornithologia. 
6 vol. 4to. Paris. 
Brisson. Ornithologia siv 
^Visionemin Or, hues. iecd;mr::=i5::r 
Bat. 176.3. 2 vol. Svo. ( A Svnonsis of tin, i 
ing the essential characters in Latin'. ccoiain- 
Bnlfon. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseanv T> t , 
Buffon. Redige par C. S. Sonnini. p„is An I** 
8vo. (The figures are very rude. ) *'• 
London w‘ "f. Birds. By Dr. J. Latham. 
London, 1792. Aic. 3 vol. and 2 supplements, dm. (The 
