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North America for all the species of the genus Colymbus, or Etidytes 

 according to some ornithologists, frequently with the prefix Sprat, 

 indicating the kind of fish on which they are supposed to prey ; 

 though it is the local name of the Great Crested Grebe, Fodicipes 

 cristatus, wherever that bird is sufficiently well known to have 

 one; and, as appears from Grew {Mus. Reg. Soc. p. 69), it was 

 formerly given to the little Grebe or Dabchick, P. fiuviatilis or 

 minor, as well. The other form, Loo?n, seems more confined in its 

 application to the north, and is said by Mr. T. Edmondston {Etym. 

 Gloss. Shell, and Orhi. Dialect, p. 67) to be the proper name in 

 Shetland of Colymbus septentrionalis ; ^ but it has come into common 

 use among Arctic seamen as the name of the species of Guillemot, 

 Alca arra or bmennichi, which in thousands throngs the cliffs of far 

 northern lands, from whose (hence called) " loomeries " they obtain 

 a considerable stock of wholesome food, while the writer believes 

 he has heard the word locally applied to the Razorbill. 



LORD, the Newfoundland name for what is now commonly 

 called the Harlequin-Duck (Edwards, N'at. Hist. B. i. p. 99). 



LORIKEET, the diminutive of 



LORY, a word of Malayan origin signifying Parrot,^ which is 

 in general use with slight variation of form in many European 

 languages, and is the name of certain birds of the Order Pslttaci, 

 mostly from the Moluccas and New Guinea, and remarkable for 

 their bright scarlet or crimson coloiU"ing, though also, and perhaps 

 subsequently, applied to some others in which the plumage is 

 chiefly green. Among the birds so called are some that have 



^ Dunn and Saxby, however, agree in giving " Rain -Goose " as the name of 

 this bird in Shetland. 



^ The anonymous author of a Vocabulary of the English and Malay Lan- 

 guages, published at Batavia in 1879, in which the words are professedly spelt 

 according to their pronunciation, gives it Looree. Buffon {Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 

 p. 125) states that it comes from the bird's cry, which is likely enough in the 

 case of captive examples taught to utter a sound resembling that of the name 

 by which they are commonly called. Nieuhoff ( Voyages par iner et par terre a 

 differents lieux des Indes. Amsterdam : 1682-92) seems to have first made the 

 word "Lory" known (c/. Ray, Synops. Avium, p. 151). Crawfurd {Diet. Engl. 

 and Malay Languages, p. 127) spells it nori or nuri ; and in the first of these 

 forms it is used, says Dr. Finsch {Die Papageien, ii. p. 732), by Pigafetta. 

 Aldrovandus {Ornith. lib. xi. cap. 1) noticed a Parrot called in Java nor, and 

 Clusius {Exotica, p. .364) has the same word. This will account for the name 

 noyra or noira applied by the Portuguese, according to BufTon {ut supra, pp. 

 125-127) ; but the modern Portuguese seem to call a Parrot generally Louro, and 

 in the same langiiage that word is used as an adjective, signifying bright in 

 colour. The French write the word Loury {cf. Littre, sub voce). The Lory oi 1 

 colonists in South Africa is a Touraco^ ; and King Lory is a name applied by ^J ' "^'v^^* 

 dealers in birds to the Australian Parrot^ of the genus Aprosmictus. 



