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MOOR- TITLING—MO RILLON 



of the bones of which, after undergoing examination by Sir AV, Buller 

 and Prof. T. J. Parker (2V(m5. i\^. Zeal. Inst. xiv. pp. 2.38-258), are 

 now in the museum of Dresden, where Dr. A. B. Meyer dechxred 

 the recent remains to be specifically distinct from the fossil, and while 



NoTOEXis. Natural size. (From Buller.) 



keeping for the latter the name N. mantelli gave the former that of N. 

 hochstetteri. A third species ascribed to the genus, N. alba, is said to have 

 once inhabited Lord Howe's and Norfolk Islands, but is now extinct, 

 a specimen at Vienna (Ibis, 1873, p. 295, pi. X;) being its sole remains. ^ 



MOOR-TITLING, a common local name in Scotland and the 

 North of England for the Titlark. 



MOORUK, the native name of the species of Cassowary 

 peculiar to NeAV Britain, and adopted as an English word. 



:\IOOSE-BIRD, a name for the Canada Jay. 



MOREPORK, in New Zealand the name of an Owl, Spiloglaux 

 nocie-zealaiidix, but in Tasmania that of Fodargics cwvieri (Nightjar), 

 in each case from the cry of the bird. 



]\I0RILL0N, a name commonly given by fowlers to the female 

 and immature male of the Golden-Eye, the Clangula glaucion of 



^ The genus Aptornis, of wliicli Prof. Owen described the remains from New 

 Zealand as nearly allied to Notornis and Poiyhyrio, is considered by Prof. T. J. 

 Parker {loc. cit.) to bo a "development by degeneration of an ocydromine type," 

 and Mr. Lydekker {Cat. Foss. B. Br. JIiis. p. 147) speaks of it as "allied to 

 Ocydrwuos" (Weka). 



