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pale yellow. They are very large in Limicolx, except Scolopixx, and 

 are occasionally absent in *S'. rusticola, Laridx, Colymhiclse and l\ihi- 

 luires, resting subcutaneovisly on the frontals between the eyes, or 

 above the orbital margin and producing on these bones deep 

 depressions, the configuration of which, together with lateral notches, 

 or canals between the nasals, lacrymals and frontals can, Avith care, 

 be used for taxonomic purposes. In most Aiiseres the glands are 

 small and placed on the upjier orbital margin. "When they are 

 small they extend to the orbital cavity only or are restricted to the 

 maxillary cavity, as in PaititiB, Gallinse, Cohimhx, Otis, Sula, Pelargi, 

 Accipitres, Picarise and Passer es. 



NASUT^E, Nitzsch's name in 1840 for the group which Illiger 

 tad called Tubinares in 1811. 



NATATORES, Illiger's name in 1811 for an Order of Birds 

 (including 6 Families and 22 genera), equivalent to the Linntean 

 Anseres. Holding its place, to the exclusion of the older term, for 

 about fifty yeai^s, ornithologists at last perceived that the group 

 contained many forms which have no affinity, and the Avord is noAv 

 hardly used but by writers who know little of the principle of 

 Taxonomy. 



I^ATIVE- COMPANION, (h-ns ausfmlasianns (Crane) ; -HEN, 

 any species of Tribonyx (Rail) ; -PHEASANT, Lipoa ocelhita (Mega- 

 pode) • -SPARROAV", Zonxginthus oculeus, one of the AVeaver- 

 birds ; -THRUSH, Pachycephala olivacea (Thickhead) ; -TURKEY, 

 Otis australis, a Bustard — all names used, according to Gould, l)y the 

 English in Australia or Tasmania. 



NECK, or cenix, that part of the body which extends from the 

 head to the thorax, the last cervical vertebi'a being the one which 

 carries a pair of ribs that do not join the Sternum. 



NEOPHRON, the generic term given to the Vultur percnopterus 

 of Linnaeus by Savigny ^ when separating it 

 from the other Vultures, and sometimes .^^--^^'^fe??-.^ 



used as an English word. .**k^!^^,^" i^^' 





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NEOSSOPTILE, see Feathers (p. 243). 



NERVOUS SYSTEM. This consists of neophrox. 



two parts, (1) a Central portion, composed of (After swainson.) 



the Spinal Cord and Brain, and (2) Peripheral, containing the 

 Cranial and Spinal Nerves, together Avith all that pertains to Avhat 

 is called the SymjMthetic. 



^ He took the Avord from the pseudomythological Mctamoyyhoscs (or Trans- 

 fonnatioimm congeries, Fab. 5) of Autoniuus Liberalis, a writer who flourished 

 about the middle of the second century, Neophron being the name of a man 

 changed, for a base trick he played, into a Vulture by Zeus. 



