592 MOOR-TITLING—MORILLON 
of the bones of which, after undergoing examination by Sir W. Buller 
and Prof. T. J. Parker (Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xiv. pp. 238-258), are 
now in the museum of Dresden, where Dr. A. B. Meyer declared 
the recent remains to be specifically distinct from the fossil, and while 
Notornis. Natural size. (From Buller.) 
keeping for the latter the name NV. mantelli gave the former that of NV. 
hochstetteri. Athird species ascribed to the genus, NV. alba, is said to have 
once inhabited Lord Howe’s and Norfolk Islands, but is now extinct, 
a specimen at Vienna (Jdis, 1873, p. 295, pl. x.) being its sole remains. ! 
MOOR-TITLING, a common local name in Scotland and the 
North of England for the Trrnark. 
MOORUK, the native name of the species of CASSOWARY 
peculiar to New Britain, and adopted as an English word. 
MOOSE-BIRD, a name for the Canada JAY. 
MOREPORK, in New Zealand the name of an Ow1, Spiloglaua 
novee-zedlandix, but in Tasmania that of Podargus cuviert (NIGHTJAR), 
in each case from the ery of the bird. 
MORILLON, a name commonly given by fowlers to the female 
and immature male of the GoLpDEN-EyE, the Clangula glaucion of 
1 The genus Aptornis, of which Prof. Owen described the remains from New 
Zealand as nearly allied to Notornis and Porphyrio, is considered by Prof. T. J. 
Parker (loc. cit.) to be a ‘development by degeneration of an ocydromine type,” 
and Mr. Lydekker (Cat. Foss. B. Br. Mus. p. 147) speaks of it as ‘‘allied to 
Ocydromus” (WEKA). 
