POD ARGUS— POPELER T^n 



that most interesting form generally, but obviously in error, placed 

 among them, the Logger-HEAD (p. 518), Eacehorse or Steamer- 

 Duck, Tachyeres or Micropterus cinereus of the Falkland Islands and 

 Straits of Magellan — nearly as large as a tame Goose, and subject, 

 as is asserted, to the, so far as known, unique peculiarity of losing 

 its power of flight after reaching maturity. 



POD ARGUS, a genus of birds so named by Vieillot in 1819, 

 being based on the Fodarge of Cuvier, and used by Gould and 

 other writers as an English word (see MOREPORK, p. 592, and 

 Nightjar, p. 638). 



POE-BIRD, another name for the Parson-bird. 



POLLUX, the thumb or first digit of the wing, never consisting 

 of more than two phalanges, of which the terminal one is often 

 aborted or absent ; but, when fully developed, it often bears a 

 horny CLAW. From the basal phalanx grows the so-called " bastard 

 wing." 



POLYMYODI (or POLYMYOD^ if a feminine termination 

 be needed), Johannes Miiller's name (Abhandl. k Akad. Berlin, Phys. 

 Kl. 1847, p. 366) for the first of his three groups of Passerini, 

 from the many song-muscles they possess, equivalent to the OsciNES 

 of Keyserling and Blasius. 



POMPADOUR,^ the name given by Edwards in 1759 

 {Gleanings, ii. p. 275, pi. 341) to one of the most beautiful of 

 the Cotingidse (Chatterer), and since generally adopted, though 

 prior to his publication of the species it had been already described 

 and figured by Brisson (Ornithol. ii. p. 347, pi. xxxv. fig. 1). It 

 is the Ampelis pompadora of Linnaeus, referred now to the genus 

 Xipholena, a native of Guiana, Surinam and Cayenne, and easily 

 recognized by the shining crimson-purple of its plumage, set off 

 by its white wings. Two other allied species, X. atripurpurea and 

 X lamellipennis, inhabit Brazil (c/. Sclater, Cat B. Br. Mus. xiv. 

 pp. 387-389). 



POOL-SNIPE, said to be a local name of the Redshank. 



POOR SOLDIER, a name for the Australian Friar-bird. 



POPE, one of the many local names of the Puffin, Fratercula 

 ardica, as well as of the Bullfinch. 



POPELER, an old name for the Spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia^ 



it is not so ; but anybody who has taken the trouble to investigate the history 

 of an exterminated species will find that to determine the time when it ceased 

 from appearing is no easy thing. 



' As a bird's name in French, Pom'padour signifies a breed of domestic poultry, 

 apparently that which we call the Polish. 



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