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only assumed in spring. Among them is the curious Cerorhyncha 
(or Ceratorhina) monocerata which by shedding the horn-like pro- 
tuberance rising between the nostrils, and here figured, led to no 
few mistakes until the peculiarity was known. 
AVADUVAT, a corruption of AMADAVAT. 
AVIS, the ordinary Latin word for Brrp, and in its plural form, 
Aves, the scientific name of the Class of Vertebrate Animals which 
comprises every kind of Bird. 
The want of an adjective derived from 4vis and Bird is one 
much felt both in Latin! and English. In the latter language 
remedy is hopeless, for bird-like is not enough, and “birdy” can 
only be regarded as jocose. From the former an attempt has been 
made to supply this defect by the invention and use by some 
writers of “avian ”—a form which scholars declare to be unclassical, 
though they allow that ‘‘avine” might perhaps be admitted. Of 
Greek origin “ornithic” is quite justifiable. 
AVOSET, from the Ferrarese Avosetta,? the Recurvirostra avocetta 
AvoseET (Recurvirostra avocetta), (After Naumann.) 
of ornithology, a bird remarkable for its bill, which is perhaps the 
most slender to be seen in the whole Class, and curving upward 
towards the end, has given it two names which it formerly bore in 
1 Aviarius exists as a Latin adjective, but its precise meaning is somewhat. 
indefinite, and its use can hardly be recommended. 
2 This word is considered to be derived from the Latin avis—the termination 
expressing a diminutive of a graceful or delicate kind, as donnetta from donna 
(Prof. Salvadori in epist.); but it is spelt Avocetta by Prof. Giglioli. 
