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Show 250 AVES. 1 3 B~ck b rQwn, sp r'lnkled with w.h ite . spots; underneatIh anc1 r • with larger w 1 't ots. four whtte hnes across theta I; u e sp ' W f · · lpiav ees 'i n the woo d s. Th e, Str · passerina, Meyer and ol , 1s 1ts Thfee mgarleea. ter number, h owev er ' of these small species have only a d h . on the toes, such as few scattere ai~s G • Str pyaom;;ea, Bechst. Enl. 439; Naum. Str passerma, m., · 0 • b · h 1 48 1 • Somewhat sma1 1 er than the precedmg, u.t hW fil t nIe ar y th ' • me plum· age. Th e t al.1 a little shorter, and wlt veI arIIg' edr pael es ba ars: I. t· h.v es m. o 1l1 wa.U s • There are several close y a te a ecies in America, the Inches, &c.( 1) p k d d Nocture are nearly as large as the Hu· Some of these na e -toe 1 beautiful species, and particularly lotte. Cayenne produces severa the three following: . G • E 1 442. A fawn-c~loured ground, Str cayennenszs, m.' n · . . • . 1 ·md finely stnped w1th brown. irregularly, transverse]/; l V .11 Afr XLI.· Str. lineata, Sh.; Str.lineata. ~h.; the . u tu 'a a~.;ansv~rsely ~triped with white Str. albomargmata, Spix, ~' '. h t 'I So little does bl ck round. four w hlte hnes on t e al . ~;;ear a the ~ight, ;hat i~ is. st~~~ :~e ~~!u:::l:::o~~!:,u!~ size of these two specles lS a France. • V ·u Afr. XLII. Brown above; whitish Str. torquata, Daud.' al • d b nd on the breas~ beneath; circumference of the eyes an a ad . the Nacurutu brown. It is larger than the Chat-huant, an lS without tufts of Azzara. · e naked as well · · America whose tars1 ~Ui There are others agam m . ' . Str nudipes Daud. as theh· toes, the Cheveche nudtpede for mstance- • . . ' Vieill. Amer. XVI. Finally, we have ScoPs, Savigny, Which in addition to the prom.m ent ears, I. mp erfecf t dBisukb oa.n d naked toe's of the preceding, have tu f ts S·l m'l1 ar to thEos eI o4 "6a• Naum. There is one of them in France, Str. scops~ • n . " 'lumage, 4" 3 hardly as large as a Th rus h ' with cmereo.u s P d witn m.,o, re' or less shaded w.l th f awn co I our,. P rettily varieg· atela rgref little narrow black streaks, an d w.l t h t rans verse vertmcu ( 1) Str. brama T. Col. 68, which scarcely dr. ffers fr,o m th.e plads seCroiin.a1.3-~~ ~· Sonnerati, Col. 1.' -Str. urucurea, Id. of w h'r c Il tll e Str: grallar1ta 9, 8 -·S tr purru' /o, the female.-Str. castanoptera, Ho ff· ot· Str . spad t'e e a' Remw. · C'deo · Co· l. 344, is Pro o Ilh· g. or caboure of· Azz. Co 1· ."" 9 'of w1 u ·c Il tCl le lS t1r9 .9p -aSsshe:n·.n oltti rsus,t a, T. Col. 289 ,. .. bably the male.-Str. ferrugmea, Pr. Max. <> • • l• Str, occipitalis.-The Str. maugei, Col. 46, is already tolerably arge. ACCIPITRES. 251 Jines; a suite of white spots on the scapulars, and six or eight feathers in each tuft; a beautiful little bird. ( 1) Certain large species have the legs naked as well as the toes.(2) ORDER II. PASS ERIN JE. This order is the most numerous of the whole cJass. Its character, at first, seems purely negative, for it embraces all birds which are neither swimmers, waders, cUmbers, rapacious, nor gallinaceous. By comparing them with each other, however, we soon perceive a great mutual similarity of structure, and particularly such insensible transitions from one genus to another, that it is extremely difficult to separate them into subdivisions. They neither have the violence of the birds of prey, nor the fixed regimen of the gallinacere, nor of the water-birds ; insects, fruit, and grain constitute their food, which consists the more exclusively of grain, in proportion to the largeness of their beak, and of insects, as it is the more slender. Those which have strong beaks pursue even smaU birds. Their stomach is a muscular gizzard. They have, generally, two very smaU creca. Among them we find the singing birds, and the most complicated inferior larynx. The proportional length of their wings, and their power of fiight are as various as their habits. (1) We can find no difference between the Str. zorca of Cetti, the Str. carniolita of Scopoli, the Str. pulchella of Pallas and the Scops ; these gentlemen must have considered their birds as distinct, because Linna:us described the tuft of his as consisting of a single feather. Add the St. nuilipede, (Bub. nudipedes,) Vieill. Alner. 22.-The Str. atricapilla, T. Col. 45, or Str. crucigera, Spix, IX.-The Str. noctula, T. Col. 99. ~ ( 2 ) The Str. ketupa, 1'. Col. 74, and the Str. Leachenat4ldi, Id. Col. 20, will be ound at most to form but one species. |