758 QUAKER— QUEZAL 



larger one is seldom if ever seen. Both appear to be equally 

 courageous, and their thoroughly Falconine aspect is shewn by the 

 annexed figure. 



QUAKEE, a sailors' name for the Dusky Albatros, Phoebetria 

 fuliginosa. 



QUAKETAIL, a book-name invented for the Yellow Wagtail 

 and its allies, after they had been generically separated from 

 Motacilla as Budytes. 



QUAM or QUAN, old ways of spelling what is now written 



GUAN. 



QUA-QUA, the Creole name in Tobago, for a species of 

 Thamnophilus (Ant-Thrush, p. 21) there found. 



QUEEST or QUIST, an abbreviated corruption of Cushat. 



QUESAL or QUEZAL the Spanish-American name for one of 

 the most beautiful of birds, abbreviated from the Aztec or Maya 

 Quetzal-tototl, the last part of the compound word meaning fowl, and 

 the first, also written Quetzal, the long feathers of rich green with 

 which it is adorned.^ The Quezal is one of the Trogons, and was 

 originally described by Hernandez (Eistoria, p. 13), whose account 

 was faithfully copied by Willughby. Yet the bird remained 

 practically unknown to ornithologists until figured in 1825, from a 

 specimen belonging to Leadbeater,^ by Temminck {PI. col. 372) 

 who, however, mistakenly thought it was the same as the Trogon 

 pavoninus, a congeneric but quite distinct species from Brazil, that 

 had just been described by Spix (Av. Bras. i. p. 47, pi. xxxv.) In 

 1832 the Begistro Trimestre, a literary and scientific journal printed 

 at Mexico, of which few copies can exist in Europe, contained a com- 

 munication (pp. 43-49) by Dr. Pablo de la Llave, describing this 



^ Dr. Tylor informs me that the Mexican deity Quetzal-coatl had his name, 

 generally translated "Feathered Snake," from the quetzal, feather or bird, and 

 coatl, snake, as also certain kings or chiefs, and many places, e.g. Quetzalapan, 

 Quetzaltepec, and Quezaltenango, though perhaps some of the last were named 

 directly from the personages (c/. Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States, 

 vol. V. Index). Quetzal-itzli is said to be the emerald. 



- This specimen had been given to Mr. Canning (a tribute, perhaps, to the 

 statesman who afterwards boasted that he had ' ' called a New World into 

 existence to redress the balance of the Old ") by Mr, Schenley, a diplomatist, 

 and was then thought to be unique in Europe ; but, apart from those which 

 had reached Spain, where they lay neglected and undescribed, James Wilson 

 says {Illustr. Zool. pi. vi. text) that others were brought with it, and that one 

 of them v/as given to the Edinburgh Museum. On the 21st day of the sale of 

 Bullock's Museum in 1819, Lot 38 is entered in the Catalogue as "The Tail 

 Feather of a magnificent undescribed Trogon," and very likely belonged to this 

 species. It was bought for nineteen shillings by Warwick, a well-known 

 London dealer. 



