12,0 
Pl. 
9 19 
920 
921 
922 
9 2 3 
924 
9 25 
926 
927 
928 
929 
93 ° 
93 1 
93 2 
933 
934 
935 
93 6 
937 
93 8 
939 
940 
941 
CATALOGUE OF 
Le grand Pluvier — - 
Le Pluvier a collier — 
Le petit Pluvier a collier — 
Beccafme de Madamjcar — 
Le V T anneau varie 
La Guifette — . — - 
La grande Aigrette d’ Amerique 
Crabier de la Nouvelle Guinee 
Le Cormoran ■ — • 
Le Canard fiffieur hupe — 
L’ Hu i trier — — 
Sarcelle de Java — 
Le Jougris — — 
Le Bec-ouvert de Pondichsry 
Tete du Calao a cafque fond 
Bee de 1 ’Oifeau Rhinoceros 
Harle hupe de Virginie — • 
fa femelle — 
Oye de la cote de Coromandel 
Le Guepier — — - 
Le Pouacre de Cayenne — - 
Le Merle d’eau • — • 
Le Grebe * — — 
THE BIRDS, &c. 
De Buffon. 
VIII. 105 
•99 
ibid. 
VII. 495 
VIII. 71 
339 
VII. 377 
394 
VIII. 310 
IX. 182 
VIII. 119 
IX. 275 
VIII. 241 
VII. 409 
159 
16 1 
» VIII. 280 
ibid. 
IX. 77 
VI. 480 
VII. 427 
VIII. 134 
227 
* “ Les Pecheurs de Picardie vont fur la cote d 'Angleterre denicher les Grebes, qui, en effet, 
“ ne nichent pas fur celles de France : ils trouvent ces oifeaux dans des creux de rochers, ou 
“* apparemment ils volent faute d’y pouvoir grimper, & d’ou il faut queleurs petits fe precipi- 
“ tent dans la mer ; mais fur nos grands etangs le Grebe conftruit fon nid avec des rofeaux et 
“ des joncs entrelaffes.” 
No man can help being miflnformed ; but furely the Comte muft be poffeffed of mod: cre~ 
dulous inattention to a fubjeft, of which he profeffes himfelf to be the chief of his time, to 
fwaliow. fo grofs an impofition. The Grebe builds its neft in England exaftly as it does in 
France ; it is formed of reeds and rulhes, and reding on the water, affixed to the growing 
vegetables which furround it. Place or climate alter not the ceconomy of animals ; and it 
would be very wonderful if the Grebes of England ffiould feek the hollows of the cliffs im- 
pending over the fea, to depofit their eggs, while thofe of their r.igh neighbor France inha- 
bit the freffi-water lakes, and always form a neft as before deferibed. It is highly probable 
that the Comte de Bujfon's mif-informer miflook the young of the Guilletnot, which the filher- 
men of Picardy had brought from our cliffs, for thofa of the Grebe , and made his report ac- 
cordingly. In a future edition, I dare fay that the Comte will transfer this account to p. 350 
of his ninth volume; for thefe only can be the birds which the French fiffiermen take on our 
coafts : at the fame time let him inform his readers, that, inftead of their having a feeble 
flight, few birds fly ftronger, or with greater rapidity. 
942. Le 
