Having given a sketch of our minerals, vegetables, and quadrupeds, and being led by a proud theory to make a comparison of the latter with those of Europe, and to extend it to the man of America, both aboriginal and emigrant, I will proceed to the remaining articles comprehended under the present query. Between ninety and an hundred of our birds have been described by Catesby. His drawings are better as to form and attitude, than colouring, which is generally too high. They are the following: than South. If he was mistaken then as to the former, he may be so as to the latter. The glimmerings which reach us from South America enable us only to see that its inhabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery, superstition, and ignorance. Whenever they shall be able to rise under this weight, and to show themselves to the rest of the world, they will probably show they are iike the rest of the world. We have not yet sufficient evidence that there are more lakes and fogs in South America than in other parts of the earth. As little do we know what would be their operation on the inind of man. That coun try has been visited by Spaniards and Portuguese chiefly, and alınost exclusively. These, going from a country of the old world remarkably dry in its soil and clinate, fancied there were more lakes and logs in South America than in Europe. An inhabitant of Ireland, Sweden, or Finland would have formed the contrary opinion. Had South America then been discovered and settled by a people from a fenny country, it would probably have heen represented as much drier than the old world. A patient pursuit of facts, and cautious combination and coinparison of them, is the drudgery to which man is subjected by his Maker, if he wishes to attain sure knowledge, BIRDS OF VIRGINIA. Linnæan designation. Catesby's Designation. Buteo specie Gallo-pavonis, Accipiter minor, Accipiter caudâ lurcatâ, Accipiter piscatorius, Noclua aurita minor, leterus minor, Monedula purpurea, Cuculus Caroliniensis, Picus maximus rostro albo, Picus niger maxious, capite rubro, Picus major alis aureis, Picus medius quasi-villosus, Picus varius minor ventre luteo, Popular Names. Buffon oiseaux 8.398 1.246 1.138 1.338 1.286.312 1. 2 Fishing hawk, 1 199 1.141 5.164 5 318 1 49 Basiard Ballimore, 5 321 1'12 Purple jack daw. Crow blackbird, 5 134) 1. 9 Carolina cuckow, 1.262) 1.16 White bill woodpecker, 13.691 1.17 Larger red-crested woodpecker, 13.72 13.83 13.105 13.113 1.19 Hairy woodpecker. Spec. woodpecker 13.111 1.21 Yellow-bellied woodpecker, 13.115 Sitta Europæa Popular Names. Crane, Indian hen, 71 Chaltering plover. Kildee, Sitla capile migio, Anas Americanus cristatus elegans, bution 10 -131 11 16 cionarinn Caleak Designation. Punuar me Buffon Buffon Popular Names. oiseaux. 15.185 1.85 Oyster-catcher, 15,256 3.187.229 xliv. Wild turkey, 4.227 3.409 4.404 Columba passerina, Tartur mininus guttatus, 1.26 Ground dove, 4.351 Columba migratoria, Palumbus migratorius, 1.23 Pigeon of passage. Wild pigeon, 4.401 1 24 Turtle. Turtle dove, 9.79 Alauda alpestris, Alauda gutture flavo, 11.32 Lark. Sky lark, 6.59 1.33 Field lark. Large lark, 55.426 1.29 Fieldfare of Carolina. Rob. redbreast, 19.257 5.449) Turdus rufus, Turdus rusus, 1.28 Fox coloured tbrush. Thrusb, 5.451 5.400 1.46 Chatterer, 6.162 1.38 Red bird. Virginia nightingale, 6.185 Loxia Cærulea, Coccothrustes cærulea, 1.39 Blue gross beak, 8.125 Emberiza hyemalis, Passer pivalis, 1.36 Soow bird, 8 47 Emberiza Orizivora, Hortolanus Caroliniensis, 1.14 Rice bird, 8.49 Emberiza Ciris, Fringilla tricolor, 1.44 Painted fioch, 7.247 Tanagra cyanea, Liniaria cærulea, 7.122 1.45 Blue linnet, Passerculus, 1 35 Little Sparrow, 7.120 Passer fuscus, 11.34 Cowpen bird, 7.196 Lionæan designation. Cateshy's Designation. Fringilla purpurea, Muscicapa nigrescens, Moscicapa oculis rubris, l'arus cristatus, Parus cucullo nigro, Parus Caroliniensis, Hirundo purpurea, |