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814 SA TIN-BIRD— SCAMEL 



SATIN-BIRD, one of the Bower-birds (p. 49), Ptilmhynclius 

 violaceus or holosericeus, so-called from its glossy plumage. 



SATIN- SPARROW, the name in Tasmania for Myiagra nitida, 

 a Flycatcher. 



, SAURIUR^ or SAURIURI, Prof. Hackel's names in 1866 



yVt^fx^^A {Gen. Morphol. i. p. cxxxix. ) for the first of his two Subclasses of 

 ' Aves, consisting so far as is at present known of Archxopteryx 



(Fossil Birds, pp. 278-280), his second Subclass being named 

 Ornithurx, and composed of two "Legions," (1) Autophagx or 

 NiDiFUG^, the latter therefore not used in the same sense as in the 

 present work (p. 635) ; and (2) Pxdotrophx or Insessores (p. 459), 

 which last differs from the meaning attached to it by Vigors. 

 Prof. Huxley having adopted the modified term SAURUR-i:E as 

 one of his Orders {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 418), it has come into 

 fVi^^^rwrA general use, while O rnithurx may be said to have lapsed. ^ 



SAUROGNATH^, the late Prof, W. K. Parker's name {Trans. 

 R. Micros. Soc. 1872, p. 219) for the Celeomorph^ of Prof. 

 Huxley {Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 456), consisting of the Picidx 

 (Woodpecker) and lynginse (Wryneck), thereby raising them to 

 the same rank as the latter's other Suborders of Carinat^. 



SAVANNA BLACKBIRD, a common West-Indian name of 

 Crotophaga ani (Ani). 



SAWBILL, a name commonly given to the Goosander and 

 Merganser, and also used in some books for the Motmots. 



SAW-SHARPENER, a widely-spread local name for the Great 

 Titmouse, Parus major, from the peculiar song of the cock. 



SAW-WHET, a little Owl, Nyctala acadica, so-called in Audubon's 

 words {Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 567) from "the sound of its love-notes 

 bearing a great resemblance to the noise produced by filing the 

 teeth of a large saw." 



SAYSIE, a name applied in South Africa to several Finches of 

 the genus CritJiagra (Layard, B. S. Afr. ed. 2, pp. 485-487). 



SCALE-DUCK, a local name for the Sheld-drake. 



SCAMEL, a word, used once by Shakespear {Tempest, Act XL 

 So. ii., line 176), that has given rise to many conjectures (c/. Wright, 

 Cambr. Shakesp. i. p. 51); but is commonly accepted as a bird's 

 name, a signification rendered more likely by the fact that at 

 Blakeney, on the coast of Norfolk, it was applied to a Godwit 

 (Stevenson, B. Norf. ii. p. 260), though it is not to be supposed that 

 Shakespear used it in that sense. It seems to be otherwise 



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Botanists, however, had made a prior application of Saururx, 



