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DO VEKEE—DREPANIS 



occurs, which Canon Tristram thinks is the Turtle-Dove of Scrip- 

 ture. 



The " Greenland Dove " of Arctic seamen and of some writers 

 in the last century is the 



DOVEKEE or DOVEKEY (often written affectedly Dovekie), 

 the whalers' name for what is called in most hooks the Black 

 Guillemot, Uria grylle ; but sometimes misapplied to the Little 

 Auk or Eotche. 



DRAW -WATER, a common name given to the Goldfinch, 

 which in captivity learns the trick of pulling a small bucket or cup 

 of water from a reservoir placed below its cage, the cup being sus- 

 pended by a string or light chain. 



DREPANIS, the scientific name given by Temminck {Man. 

 (POrn. ed. 2, i. p. Ixxxvi.) to certain birds of the Sandwich Islands, 



Mamo, Drepanis pacifica. 



originally referred to the genus CertJiia, and subsequently regarded 

 as belonging to the Family Meliphagidx (Honi:y-sucker), but lately 

 ascertained by Dr. Gadow to differ from the latter hy possessing a 

 tongue of a very distinct structure, and to be probaljly more nearly 

 allied to the Cxrehidx, so that their recognition as a separate 

 Family, Drepanididx, is justifiable. The genus Drepanis, as latterly 

 resti-icted, includes but a single species, D. pacifica, now according 

 ^^^"^1 to all accounts extinct,^ owing, it is believed, to the way in 



