(A) TERRESTRIAL BIRDS.
Order 1. Accapitres. Birds of prey, with strong hooked bills, and large curved ta Ions, a membranous stomach, and short czca.
1. Vultur, vultures.
2. Falco, falcon, eagle, hawk, kite.
3. Stria, owl.
4. Lanius, shrike, or butcher bird.
II. Levirostres, light-billed birds, hay ing a large hollow bill.
1. Psittacus; parrot kind.
2. Ramphastos, toucan.
3. Buceros, rhinoceros bird.
Piece, this and the two following or ders are not clearly characterised.
1. Picus, woodpecker.
2. .lynx, wryneck. 3 Sitta, nuthatch.
4. Alcedo, king's•fisher.
5. Trochilus, hummingbird, &c. &c.
IV. Coraees. • 1. Corvus, crow, raven, jackdaw, magpie, jay, &c.
2. Coracias, roller.
3. Paradises, birds of paradise.
4. Cuculus, cuckoo, &c. &c.
V. Passeres, small singing-birds.
1. Alauda, lark.
2. Sturnus, starling.
3. Turdus, thrush, black-bird.
4. Emberiza, bunting, 5. Fringilla, finches, canary-bird, lin net, sparrow.
6. Motacilla, nightingale, redbreast, wren.
7. ilirundo, swallows, martins, &c.
8. Caprimulgus, goatsucker, &c.
VI. Galling, gallinaceous birds, mostly ,omesticated. They possess a large crop, trong muscular-gizzards, short legs.
1. Columba, pigeons.
2 Tetrao, grous, quail, partridge.
3. Numida, guinea-fowl.
4. Meleagris, turkey.
5. Pavo, peacock.
6. Otis, bustard.
VII. Struthioaes, struthinous birds. The rgest of the class : possess extremely nail wings, and are therefore incapable flight ; but run very swiftly.
1. Struthio, ostrich.
2. Casuarius, cassowary or emu: (a) AQUATIC BIRDS.
Order I. Grall.e, waders frequenting marshes and streams ; long naked legs ; long neck ; cylindrical bill, of different lengths.
1. Aides, crane, stork, heron, bit tern.
2. Scolopax, woodcock, snipe, cur lew.
3. Tringa, lapwing, huffs, and 4. Charadrius, plover.
5. Fulica, coot.
6. Rallus, rail.
7. Plicenicopterns, flamingo.
8. Tantalus, ibis, &c, IL swimming birds ; web boted ; bill broad and flat, covered by a ;omewhat soft substance, on large nerves are distributed.
1. Colymbus, diver.
2 Carus, gull.
3. Procellaria, petrel.
4. Di omedea, albatros.
5. Pelecalms, pelican, cormorant.
6. Anas, swan, cluck, goose.
7. Mergus, goosander.
8. Alca, auk, puffin.
9. Aptenodytes, penguin.
• The two classes of cold-blooded ver Aral animals are, the Amphibia, and 'ishes.
The former, difFering considerably rom each other, have very few common haracters ; fbr in different instances they talk, fly, swim, and crawl. There is no xternal ear, nor cochlea ; the brain is (ways very small ; the lungs are in the une cavity with the other viscera, and ave very large air-cells ; no- epiglottis, mentum, nor mesenteric glands; two ova. es and oviducts ; cloaca, through which re fxces and urine are expelled, and in 'bleb the organs of generation terminate; either hair, feathers, nor mamma; skin Cher naked, or covered with scales ; both .ws are moveable ; there is an urinary adder.
Order I. Reptilia, having four feet, wadrupeda ovipara.) 1. Testudo, tortoise, turtle.
2. Rana, frog, toad.
3. Lacerta, lizards, crocodile, clia meleon, newt, salamander, igu ana, &c.
II. Serpentia. No external members ; body of an elongated form, and viscera of a similar shape ; they are oviparous ; hut the egg is sometimes hatched in the ovi duct ; both jaws moveable.
• 1. Crotalus, rattlesnake.
2. Boa. Immense serpents of India and Africa.
3. Coluber, viper.
4. Anguis, blind worm.
5. Amphisbmna.
6. Cecilia.
Fishes. Breathe by means of branchix or gills, and have no trachea, nor larynx ; organs of motion consisting of fins ; nose unconnected with the organs of respira tion; car entirely enclosed in the head, the tympanum, &c. being absent ; both jaws moveable ; the place of the pancreas supplied by the pyloric cxca ; an urinary bladder ; two ovaries ; heart consisting of a single auricle and ventricle. They may be distributed into two leading divisions : the cartilaginous, whose skeleton consists of cartilage ; the bony, where it is formed of a more firm substance.