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his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then 
a pause again, and then a toll, and againa pause. Then he is silent 
for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on.” In 
New Zealand the name is given to the Anthornis melanura of the 
Family Meliphagide (HONEY-SUCKER), whose melody struck the 
companions of Cook, when on his second voyage the ship was 
lying in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, as being “like small bells most 
exquisitely tuned ”—a bird which owing to the destruction of the 
forests no longer exists in most parts of that country, and will 
speedily become extinct. In Australia, according to Gould, two 
species of birds—one of them, Manorhina melanophrys, belonging to 
a different genus of the Family last-named, and the other, Orecwca 
cristata, possibly to the Laniide (SHRIKE)—are called by the same 
name for the same reason. 
BENGALI, the dealers’ name for the beautiful little African 
bird, Fringilla bengalus of Linnzeus, and some of its allies, belonging 
to the Ploceide (WEAVER-BIRD), and referred by later writers to 
the genus Lstrilda, Pytelia or Uregnathus. The name originated 
with Brisson (Ornithol. 11. p. 203), who believed these birds came 
from Bengal. 
BERGHAAN (Mountain-cock) the name given to some of the 
larger EAGLES, and especially to the beautiful Helotarsus ecaudatus 
(sometimes known as the “ Bateleur”), by the Dutch colonists in 
South Africa, and often adopted by English residents (Layard, 
B.S. Africa, pp. 11, 18). 
BERNACLE, apparently the right” way of gpelling the word 
often written, in accordance with its pronunciation, “ Barnacle ” or 
“Barnicle.” Its derivation is as puzzling to the etymologist as is 
to the ornithologist the discovery of the breeding-grounds of the 
bird it denominates. Dr. Murray, under the word “ Barnacle ” in 
the New English Dictionary, gives as the oldest known English form 
_ the Bernekke (Latinized Bernaca) of Giraldus Cambrensis about 
tone, has a clear metallic ring, though the bird, as may be seen by the figure, has 
no caruncle, shews that this feature is not likely to be connected with the power 
of producing the peculiar sound. A fourth species, C. variegatus, inhabits 
CHASMORHYNCHUS NuDICOLLIS. (After Swainson.) 
Trinidad and the neighbouring part of South America. Its loud note is likened 
by Léotaud (Ois. Trinidad, p. 260) to the sound of a cracked bell. 
