room xi. ticed in England), the honey buzard (in three 
Nat.Hist, different states), the rough-legged hazard (of 
which the rough-leggedfalcon is only a variety) $ 
the ash-coloured, and the common or hen harrier 
(the female of which is the ring-tail of authors). 
The species of the genus Stria:, the nocturnal 
birds of prey of this order, consist of the snowy 
owl , or harfang , the aluco owl , the white , the 
short-eared , and the little owl , or cheveche* 
The second order Pici (Case 7, upper 
shelves), is composed of birds with climbing 
feet, with ambulatory and (in the Linnean 
phrase), with gressorial or stepping feet: of the 
first division are the wood-peckers , and the wry¬ 
neck; in the second we have the nut-hatch (par¬ 
taking of the general character of the wood¬ 
peckers and the titmice), the hoopoo , and the cree¬ 
per; in the third thehee eater (& specimen of which 
was lately killed in Devonshire) and the king’s - 
fisher . 
The third order Coraces or Ravens , (Cases 
7, and 8, lower shelves) comprises those with 
scansorial or climbing feet, to which belongs the 
cuckow of which Europe possesses but one spe¬ 
cies, so remarkable for neglecting its young; and 
those with ambulatory feet, among which are the 
raven , and carrion crows , the rook , th e jackdaw, 
magpie, jay (with its white variety, considered 
by some authors as a distinct species), the nut 
cracker; all which belong to the Linnean genus 
of Corvus ; —the roller . To these are added the 
species of Lanius, referred by some to the pre¬ 
daceous 
