It is not for us to make the application. But that such practices have been resorted to, is well known among the highest scientific authorities in Paris. It is not so much in justice to a distinguished individual, as our respect for the broad principles of truth and honour, that we have said thus much. These are grave charges, but they are not lightly brought forward. Resting, as they do, on testimony the most unquestionable, we should deem it almost insulting to our countrymen could we suppose they will henceforward, by adopting these names, countenance a claim built on such a fraudulent basis. Our views of the natural situation of this group, must be reserved for the next number. * * * * * * [Illustration: PETROICA _multicolor_. _Scarlet breasted Robin_] PETROICA multicolor. _Scarlet-breasted Robin._ ---- Family Sylviadæ. GENERIC CHARACTER. _Bill_ slender, the sides compressed, the tip gradually bent, and beset with bristles at the base. _Wings_ long; the first quill spurious; the second intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh. _Tarsi_ elevated, the inner toe manifestly shorter than the external toe. _Tail_ broad, even. ---- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _Head, throat, and upper plumage black; front snowy; wings with one longitudinal and two oblique white bands; breast and part of the body scarlet; belly dull white._ Red-breasted Warbler. _Lewin. Birds of New Moll. pl. 17._ Muscicapa multicolor. _Gen. Horsf. & Vig. Linn. Tr. v. 16, p. 243._ Red-bellied Flycatcher. _Lath. Gen. Hist. 6, p. 209, pl. 100?_ Mus. Nost. &c. ---- The analagous resemblances between the species and groups of one region, and those by which they are represented in another, are among the most curious and remarkable facts in Natural History: whether we look to them as proofs of a Divine plan, vast in its extent, and wonderful in its details, or as exemplifying that system of symbolical relationship by which every part of the animated world is mutually connected. Both appear intended for one great purpose, the partial initiation of man into earthly mysteries, that he may have greater faith in those which regard his eternal welfare.