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pale yellow. They are very large in Limicolx, except Scolopaz, and 
are occasionally absent in S. rusticola, Laridx, Colymbidx and Tubi- 
nares, resting subcutaneously on the frontals between the eyes, or 
above the orbital margin and producing on these bones deep 
depressions, the configuration of which, together with lateral notches, 
or canals between the nasals, lacrymals and frontals can, with care, 
be used for taxonomic purposes. In most Anseres the glands are 
small and placed on the upper orbital margin. When they are 
small they extend to the orbital cavity only or are restricted to the 
maxillary cavity, as in Iatitey, Galline, Columbex, Otis, Sula, Pelargi, 
Accipitres, Picariz and Passeres. 
NASUTA, Nitzsch’s name in 1840 for the group which Tlliger 
had called TUBINARES in 1811. 
NATATORES, Illiger’s name in 1811 for an Order of Birds 
(including 6 Families and 22- genera), equivalent to the Linnzan 
ANSERES. Holding its place, to the exclusion of the older term, for 
about fifty years, ornithologists at last perceived that the group 
contained many forms which have no affinity, and the word is now 
hardly used but by writers who know little of the principle of 
Taxonomy. 
NATIVE-COMPANION, Grus australasianus (CRANE) ; -HEN, 
any species of Z’ribonyx (RAIL); -PHEASANT, Lipoa ocellata (MEGA- 
PODE); -SPARROW, Zonexginthus oculeus, one of the WEAVER- 
BIRDS ; -THRUSH, Pachycephala olivacea (THICKHEAD); -TURKEY, 
Otis australis, a BUSTARD—all names used, according to Gould, by the 
English in Australia or Tasmania. 
NECK, or cervix, that part of the body which extends from the 
head to the thorax, the last cervical vertebra being the one which 
carries a pair of ribs that do not join the STERNUM. 
NEOPHRON, the generic term given to the Vultur percnopterus 
of Linnzeus by Savigny! when separating it 
from the other VULTURES, and sometimes 
used as an English word. 
NEOSSOPTILE, see Fearuers (p. 243). 
NERVOUS SYSTEM. This consists of Nrornon. 
two parts, (1) a Central portion, composed of tae ee 
the Spinal Cord and Bratn, and (2) Peripheral, containing the 
Cranial and Spinal Nerves, together with all that pertains to what 
is called the Sympathetic. 
1 He took the word from the pseudomythological Metamorphoses (or Trans- 
Jormationum congeries, Fab. 5) of Antoninus Liberalis, a writer who flourished 
about the middle of the second century, Neophron being the name of a man 
changed, for a base trick he played, into a Vulture by Zeus. 
