140 NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



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the French physician was prosecuting his researches on the faculty. As these 

 two gentlemen were wholly unaware of each other's proceedings, it is perhaps dif- 

 ficult to say who was the first discoverer of the organ. — Ed.]] 



ADDENDA TO THE EXPLANATION OF THE LATIN NAMES OF 



BRITISH BIRDS. 



By the Rev. F. Orpen Morris, B. A . 



Neophron. Neophron. 



percnopterus. rit^xvof, same as <n:te*<>s black, black-spotted, and 



wTsfon a wing. Egyptian Neophron. 

 Elanus- " Perhaps from tXacwu, to chace or drive." — Catalogue of the Ashmo- 



lean Museum. Elanus. 



furcatus. Forked (as to the tail) ; /urea, a fork. Fork-tailed Elanus. 



Regulus. (Given in a former paper.) Kinglet. 



ignicapillus. Ignis fire, and capillus a lock or tuft. Fire-crested 



Kinglet. 



Phoenicura. (Given before.) Redstart. 



Suecica. Swedish. Blue-throated Redstart. 



Alauda. (Given before.) Lark. 



cornuta. Cornu, a hom. Horned Lark. 



Charadrius. (Given before.) Plover. 



minor. Less, or lesser. Little Plover. 



Noctua. (Given before.) Nightling. 



Tengmalmi. Named after Tengmalm. 



Salicaria. (Given before.) Reedling. 



turdoides. Turdus, a Thrush ; and */&>*, a likeness. Great Reed- 

 ling. 



Diomedea. £A bird of this name is mentioned by Pliny. — Ed.] 



chlororhynchus. XXueos green, and gvyxos a bill. Yellow-nosed 



Albatross. 



Tringa ? Tringa. 



Two new species of Tringa are mentioned in a late number of the Magazine 

 of Natural History, as having occurred in Britain, but I am at present ignorant 

 of their names. 



rufescens. Verging to red. Buff-breasted Tringa. 



pectoralis. In some way, I suppose, from pectus, a breast. Pectoral 



Tringa. 



