Looking through the third and remaining volumes on birds, the greater part of which was by Gueneau de Montbeillard, and bearing in mind that in point of date they are synchronous with some of those upon quadrupeds from which I have already extracted as much as my space will allow, and not seeing anything on a rapid survey which promises to throw new light upon the author's opinions, I forbear to quote further. I therefore leave Buffon with the hope that I have seen him more justly than some others have done, but with the certainty that the points I have caught and understood are few in comparison with those that I have missed. FOOTNOTES: [65] 'Hist. Nat.,' tom. i. p. 13, 1749. [66] Ibid. [67] Ibid. p. 16. [68] Tom. i. p. 21. [69] Ibid. p. 23. [70] Tom. ii. p. 9, 1749. [71] Ibid. p. 10. [72] Tom. iv. p. 31, 1753. [73] Tom. iv. p. 55. [74] Tom. iv. p. 98, 1753. [75] Ibid. [76] Tom. viii. p. 283, &c., 1760. [77] Tom. iv. p. 102, 1760. [78] Tom. iv. p. 103, 1753. [79] Dr. Darwin, 'Zoonomia,' vol. i. p. 183, 1796. [80] Ibid. p. 184. [81] Dr. Darwin,'Zoonomia,' vol. i. p. 186. [82] Tom. v. p. 63, 1755. [83] Ibid. p. 64. [84] Tom. v. p. 103, 1755. [85] Tom. v. p. 104, 1755. [86] Tom. v. pp. 192-195, 1755. [87] Tom. v. p. 195. [88] Tom. v. pp. 196, 197. [89] This passage would seem to be the one which has suggested the following to the author of 'The Vestiges of Creation':-- "He [the Deity] has endowed the families which enjoy His bounty with an almost infinite fecundity, ... but the limitation of the results of this fecundity ... is accomplished in a befitting manner by His ordaining that certain other animals shall have endowments sure so to act as to bring the rest of animated beings to a proper balance" (p. 317, ed. 1853). [90] Tom. vi. p. 252, 1756. [91] 'Discours sur la Nature des Animaux,' vol. iv. and p. 113 of this vol. [92] Tom. vii. p. 9, 1758. [93] Tom. vii. p. 10, 1758. [94] Tom. vii. p. 12, 1758. [95] Tom. vii. p. 14, 1758 [96] Tom. vii. p. 15, 1758. [97] Tom. vii. p. 19, 1758. [98] Tom. vii. p. 23, 1758. See Stenon's Discourse upon this subject. [99] Tom. ix. p. 10, 1761. [100] Tom. ix. p. 11, 1761. [101] Tom. ix. p. 68, 1761. [102] Ibid. p. 96, 1761. [103] Tom. ix. p. 107 and following pages (during which he rails at the new world generally), 1761. [104] Tom. ix. p. 127, 1761. [105] Tom. xi. p. 290, 1764 (misprinted on title-page 1754). [106] Ibid. p. 296. [107] Ibid. p. 363. [108] Ibid. p. 363. [109] Tom. xi. p. 370, 1764. [110] Ibid. xii., preface, iv. 1764. [111] Tom. xiii., preface, x. 1765. [112] Tom. xiii., preface, iv. 1765. [113] Ibid. xiii. p. 37. [114] See p. 80 of this volume. [115] Tom. xiv. p. 30, 1766. [116] Tom. xiv. p. 31, 1766. [117] Ibid. p. 32, 1766. [118] Tom. xiv. p. 38, 1766. [119] Ibid. p. 42, 1766. [120] Tom. xiv. p. 316, 1766. [121] Ibid. p. 317. [122] Tom. xiv. p. 326, 1766. [123] Ibid. p. 327. [124] Tom. xiv. p. 333. [125] Ibid. p. 335, 1766.