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and never need again occupy the attention of the ornithologist. It 
remains to say that the present species has its common name from 
the outward resemblance to a TuRKEY afforded by its bare, red 
head and neck, and its generally black plumage. In its near ally 
C. burrovianus, of Eastern Brazil, the nape is clothed nearly to the 
occiput, and in C. afratus the naked skin of head and neck is black. 
JOHN-DOWN, the name given to the FutmMAR by Newfound- 
land fishermen. 
JOHNNY, the South-Sea sealers’ name! for a PENGUIN, 
Pygoscelis papua or txeniata, one of the widely-distributed species ; 
but rapidly decreasing in numbers, owing to the destruction to 
which it is subjected at its breeding-places. It is disgusting to 
read (Phil. Trans. vol. 168, p. 155) that, on the occasion of the 
observation of the Transit of Venus in 1874-5 on Kerguelen Land, 
where this species had many settlements, a naturalist should have 
to write of one of them—‘ The whole of this community of Pen- 
guins was subsequently boiled down into ‘hare soup’ for the 
officers of H.M.S. ‘ Volage.’” It is obvious that officers of this kind 
should not be sent on scientific expeditions. 
JUMBY-BIRD, a Negro name for almost any kind that is of 
bad omen, but especially for an OWL. 
JUNGLE-FOWL, generally accepted as the wild original of the 
domestic Fow.. 
K 
KAE, the common Scottish name of the Daw. 
KAGU, the native name, since Anglified, of an extremely 
curious bird, found, after the French occupation of New Caledonia 
in 1852, to be an inhabitant of that island, to which it 
is peculiar. It is the Rhinochetus jubatus of ornithology, and the 
first specimen brought to the notice of naturalists was sent to the 
Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1860 by Mons. Latour. Its 
original describers, Jules Verreaux and Des Murs, regarded it 
first as a HERON and then as a CRANE (fev. Zool. 1860, pp. 439- 
441, pl. 21; 1862, pp. 142-144); but, on Dr. George Bennett 
sending two live examples to the Zoological Gardens, Mr. Bartlett 
(Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, pp. 218, 219, pl. xxx.) quickly detected in 
1 Modern sailors’ names are hard to trace. Perhaps this may be connected 
with ‘‘ Gentoo,” which, Capt. Abbot says (Lbis, 1860, p. 337), is the name given to 
the species in the Falkland Islands, and may suggest a Portuguese origin. 
