5 30 MA G PIE— MA LLEMUCK 



MAGPIE is far more commonly applied to the latter, beside 

 being used in combination as MAGrPIE-LAEK (Grallina), -ROBIN, 

 -SHRIKE, and so on for many birds whose plumage is characterized 

 by black and white. 



MAINA (Hindi), MINOR and MYNAH, see Grackle. 



MAIZE-BIRD, a local name for Agelxus phoeniceus, often called 

 the Red-winged Blackbird, and in Canada the Field-officer, one of 

 the commonest and best known of the Ideridm (Icterus). 



MALEO, see Megapode. 



MALKOHA, according to J. R. Forster {Zool. Ind. 1781, p. 16) 

 the Cingalese name of the Cuckow now known as Phoenicophaes 

 pyrrhocephalus (see page 125), a species peculiar to Ceylon; but a 

 name used by Jerdon [B. Ind. i. pp. 345, 346) and other Anglo- 

 Indian ornithologists for birds belonging to allied forms such as 

 Zandostoma, Rhopodytes {cf. Shelley, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xix. 384) 

 and others. 



MALLARD, French Malarf, the male of the common Wild Duck 

 and its domesticated races. 



MALLEE-BIRD, a name given to Lipoa ocellata (Megapode). 



MALLEMUCK, from the German rendering of the Dutch 

 Mallemugge (which originally meant small flies or midges that madly 

 whirl round a light), a name given by the early Dutch Arctic 

 voyagers to the FuLMAR,^ of which the English form is nowadays 

 most commonly applied by our sailors to the smaller kinds of 

 Albatros, about as big as a Goose, met "with in the Southern 

 Ocean — corrupted into " Molly-ma wk," or otherwise modified.^ 

 There is some diff'erence of opinion as to the number of 

 species, and it is unfortunate that the results of the voyage of the 

 ' Challenger ' do not clear up the doubts that have been expressed. 

 Three have been described and figured, the Diomedea melanophrys 

 and D. chloivrhyndms for a long while, while the third, D. mbninata, 

 was discriminated by Gould {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 107), who 



^ The correct German form, as originally given by Friderich Martens 

 (Sjdtzbergische oder Groenlanclische Reise Beschreibung , Hamburg : 1675, 4to, 

 p. 68), is Mallemucke. The anonymous translation of this voyage, under the title 

 of An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North, 

 published in London in 1694 (p. 93), was probably the means of the name 

 becoming known to Ray, in whose Synopsis methodica Avium, published in 1713, 

 it appears (p. 130) as Mallemuck, and thereafter kept its place in English 

 ornithological works. 



- The application is of some standing and not confined to our own country- 

 men, for it was mentioned in 1764 by Briinnich (Or;i. Boreal, p. 31, note). 



