426 HOMRAI—HONE Y-BUZZARD 
sciatic is the artery of the thigh, but with the last named forming 
the combination Mrsomyopt, as opposed to the AcRomyopI, the 
other great section of PASSERES. 
HOMRAT, the Nepalese name, often used by Anglo-Indians, of 
the Great Indian HORNBILL. 
HONEY-BIRD, an expression of respectable antiquity, since it 
was used by Sylvester early in the seventeenth century (Du Bartas, 
Weeke I1.), but with no attempt at precision, and since applied in- 
discriminately to birds of various sorts (see HONEY-EATER). 
HONEY-BUZZARD, the English name in Willughby’s day ot 
a bird which he thought he was describing for the first time; but 
herein he was wrong, for it was the Boudree! of Belon (1555). It 
is the Falco apivorus of Linneeus, generically separated in 1817 by 
Cuvier, together with the crested eastern species from Java, as 
Pernis, which word, as before stated (p. 68, note) should be written 
Pternis.2 Willughby spoke of it as being not unfrequent in this 
country, and the statement need not be doubted, but the destruction 
of our old forests, and the depredations of gamekeepers, who foolishly 
look upon this innocent bird as an enemy, have almost extirpated it 
in England, though a few pairs return every summer with the intent 
(generally frustrated) to breed in some of our larger woods, while 
towards the fall of the year young birds of the season visit this 
island on the way to their winter-quarters ; and, through ignorance 
or wantonness, are generally killed. The home of these autumnal 
visitants can be only vaguely surmised to exist in some north- 
eastern country, for the species is not ordinarily common in Scandi- 
navia; but its yearly passage, often in great numbers, over Heligoland 
in August and September is one of the most remarkable ornithological 
features of that remarkable ornithological spot.* 
1 In modern French Bondrée, which, according to Littré, is from the old word 
bondir, to cry out ; but he takes no notice of the more ancient form, and that 
may perhaps be supposed to be related to bouder, to be alone or withdraw from 
company (cf. the French boudoir and the English ‘‘ withdrawing-room”)—in a 
secondary sense to sulk. 
2 The mistaken spelling is much older than Cuvier, for Gaza the first trans- 
lator of Aristotle has Pernix (Hist. Anim. ix. 86, Venetiis: 1525, fol. 34). 
Gloger in 1842 (Hand- und Hilfshuch der Naturgesch. p. 215) noticed this error, 
but seems himself to have been the victim of a misprint. The eastern species 
was not technically denominated by Cuvier in his work, but was doubtless, after 
his custom, named in the Paris Museum, whence Vieillot in 1823 (Zncyclop. 
Méthod@p. 1225) described it as Buteo cristatus. In the same year it was 
described and figured by Temminck and Laugier (PJ. col. 44) as Falco ptilorhyn- 
chus, a specific name so bad, that unless its priority be clearly established it 
should be given up for cristatus. 
3 Herr Giitke (Vogelw. Helgoland, p. 190) records one extraordinary instance, 
During the forenoon of the 19th of September 1858 parties of from 5 to 10 were 
