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and never need again occupy the attention of the ornithologist. It 

 remains to say that the present species has its common name from 

 the outward resemblance to a Turkey afforded by its bare, red 

 head and neck, and its generally black plumage. In its near ally 

 G. burrovianus, of Eastern Brazil, the nape is clothed nearly to the 

 occiput, and in C. atratus the naked skin of head and neck is black. 



JOHN-DOWN, the name given to the Fulmar by Newfound- 

 land fishermen. 



JOHNNY, the South - Sea sealers' name ^ for a Penguin, 

 Pi/goscelis pajma or txniata, one of the widely-distributed species ; 

 but rapidly decreasing in numbers, owing to the destruction to 

 which it is subjected at its breeding-places. It is disgusting to 

 read [Phil. Trans, vol. 168, p. 155) that, on the occasion of the 

 observation of the Transit of Yenus in 1874-5 on Kerguelen Land, 

 where this species had many settlements, a naturalist should have 

 to write of one of them — " The whole of this community of Pen- 

 guins was subsequently boiled down into ' hare soup ' for the 

 officers of H.M.S. ' Yolage.' " It is obvious that officers of this kind 

 should not be sent on scientific expeditions. 



JUMBY-BIRD, a Negro name for almost any kind that is of 

 bad omen, but especially for an Owl. 



JUNGLE-FOWL, generally accepted as the wild original of the 

 domestic Fowl. 



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KAE, the common Scottish name of the Daw. 



KAGU, the native name, since Anglified, of an extremely 

 curious bird, found, after the French occupation of New Caledonia 

 in 1852, to be an inhabitant of that island, to which it 

 is peculiar. It is the Bhinochetus jubatus of ornithology, and the 

 first specimen brought to the notice of naturalists was sent to the 

 Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1860 by Mons. Latom\ Its 

 original describers, Jules Verreaux and Des Murs, regarded it 

 first as a Heron and then as a Crane (Eev. Zool. 1860, pp. 439- 

 441, pi. 21; 1862, pp. 142-144); but, on Dr. George Bennett 

 sending two live examples to the Zoological Gardens, Mr. Bartlett 

 {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, pp. 218, 219, pi. xxx.) quickly detected in 



^ Modern sailors' names are hard to trace. Perhaps this may be connected 

 with " Gentoo," which, Capt. Abbot says {Ibis, 1860, p. 337), is the name given to 

 the species in the Falkland Islands, and may suggest a Portuguese origin. 



