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Talegallus. (After Swainson.) 



BEUSH-TURKEY, the Australian name for one of the largest 

 of the Megapodes, Talegallus lathami, 

 which has frequently made its mound, 

 laid its eggs, and reared its young in 

 the Zoological Gardens, after the manner 

 described many years ago by Mr. Bart- 

 lett (Froc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 426, 427). 

 In earlier days the position of this bird 

 was a great puzzle to some ornitholo- 

 gists, who thought from the form of 

 its bill that it was a Bii*d-of-Prey, and called it the " New-Holland 

 Vulture." 



BUDJERIGAR (spelling doubtful) a corruption of Betcherrygah, 

 given by Gould as the native name of the pretty little Australian 

 Parrakeet, Melopsittaxits undulalus, that is now so favourite a 

 cage-bird. Its name has of late been still further corrupted into 

 Beauregard ! 



BUFFLE-HEAD {i.e. Buffalo-head) a North-American species 

 of Duck, Clangula albeola, allied to the Golden-eye. 



BULBUL, from the Arabic through the Persian, in the poetry 

 of which language it plays a great part, and is generally rendered 

 "Nightingale" by translators, and rightly so according to Blyth 

 (Calcutta Review, No. Iv. March 1857, p. 153), who says that it "is 

 a species of true Nightingale." In this case it is probably that 

 named Daulias liafizi, in honour of the great Persian poet.^ But 

 whatever may have been originally intended, and Yule says 



Pycnonotds. 



(After Swainsou.) 



Phyllostrephus. 



(Hobson-Johson) that the name is derived from the bird's note, 

 the word has for a good many years been applied by Anglo- 

 Indians to various species, all or nearly all of which belong to a 

 group I'xida; (otherwise Brachijpodidse, so-called from their short legs), 

 and usually referred to the ill-defined "Family" Tlmeliidie. Of 

 this group the latest authority, Mr. Gates {Faun. Br. India, Birds, 



^ Cj. Blanford, Zool. aiid Geol. Persia, p. 169, pi. x. fig. 2 ; and Dresser, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 338. 



