BRUSH-TURKE Y—BULBUL 59 
BRUSH-TURKEY, the Australian name for one of the largest 
of the MecapoprEs, Zalegallus lathami, 
which has frequently made its mound, 
laid its eggs, and reared its young in 
the Zoological Gardens, after the manner 
described many years ago by Mr. Bart- 
lett (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 426, 427). 
In earlier days the position of this bird 
was a great puzzle to some ornitholo- 
gists, who thought from the form of 
its bill that it was a Bird-of-Prey, and called it the “ New-Holland 
Vulture.” 
BUDJERIGAR (spelling doubtful) a corruption of Betcherrygah, 
given by Gould as the native name of the pretty little Australian 
PARRAKEET, Melopsittacus undulatus, that is now so favourite a 
cage-bird. Its name has of late been still further corrupted into 
Beauregard ! 
BUFFLE-HEAD (ie. Buffalo-head) a North-American species 
of Duck, Clangula albeola, allied to the GOLDEN-EYE. 
BULBUL, from the Arabic through the Persian, in the poetry 
of which language it plays a great part, and is generally rendered 
“Nightingale” by translators, and rightly so according to Blyth 
(Calcutta Review, No. lv. March 1857, p. 153), who says that it “is 
a species of true Nightingale.” In this case it is probably that 
named Daulias hafizi, in honour of the great Persian poet! But 
whatever may have been originally intended, and Yule says 
TALEGALLUS. (After Swainson.) 
MOLPASTES. 
Pycnonotus. PHYLLOSTREPHUS. 
(After Swainson.) 
(Hobson-Jobson) that the name is derived from the bird’s note, 
the word has for a good many years been applied by Anglo- 
Indians to various species, all or nearly all of which belong to a 
group Lvidx (otherwise Brachypodidex, so-called from their short legs), 
and usually referred to the ill-defined “Family” Timeliide. Of 
this group the latest authority, Mr. Oates (Faun. Br. India, Birds, 
1 Cf. Blanford, Zool. and Geol. Persia, p. 169, pl. x. fig. 2; and Dresser, 
Ibis, 1875, p. 338. 
