DICTIONARY OF BIRDS 
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AASVOGEL (Carrion-bird), the name given to some of the larger 
VuttureEs by the Dutch colonists in South Africa, and generally 
adopted by English residents (Layard, B. S. Africa, pp. 5, 6). 
ABADAVINE or ABERDUVINE (etymology and _ spelling 
doubtful), a name applied in 1735 by Albin (Suppl. Nat. Hist. B. 
p. 71) to the SISKIN, but perhaps hardly ever in use, though often 
quoted as if it were. 
ACANTHIZA, the scientific name given in 1826 by Vigors and 
Horsfield to a genus of birds commonly ranked with the Sylviidz 
(WARBLER), and used as English since Gould’s time for the eight 
or more species which inhabit Australia. 
ACCENTOR, Bechstein’s name for a genus of Sylviidx (including 
the Hedge-SPARROW and its allies) which some British authors have 
tried with small success to add to the English language. 
ACCIPITRES, the name given by Linnzus to his first Order of 
the Class Aves, consisting of what are commonly known as Birds-of- 
Prey, namely, the Vultures, the Eagles and Hawks, and the Owls ; 
the last being by many recent authors, whose example is followed 
in the present work, separated from the first two. 
ACORN-DUCK, a name given in some parts of North America 
to the Carolina or Wood-Duck, 4 sponsa. 
ACROMYODI, Garrod’s name (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 507) 
for a group of birds practically the same as the OscINES, PoLy- 
MYODI or true PASSERES of various authors, “an acromyodian 
bird, being one in which the muscles of the SYRINX are attached to 
the extremities of the bronchial semi-rings.” The <Acromyodi are 
further divided into two groups, one (abnormales or Pseudoscines) 
consisting of, so far as is known, only the genera Alrichia (SCRUB- 
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