816 SCA URIE—SCIZZORS-TAIL 
female Scaup-Duck can be readily distinguished from the Dunbird 
or female Pochard by her broad white face. 
SCAURIE or SCOREY. In Orkney the young of the Herring- 
GULL is so-called (Niell, Tour through Orkney and Shetland, p. 201), 
and the name is perhaps elsewhere applied (Montagu, Suppl. Orn. 
Dict.) to that of some other species. 
SCHIZOGNATH 4, Prof. Huxley’s second Suborder of CaRI- 
NAT&, composed of six groups — CHARADRIOMORPHA, GERANO- 
MORPH, CECOMORPHA, SPHENISCOMORPHA, ALECTOROMORPHA 
and PERISTEROMORPHA—1in all of which the vomer, however 
variable, always tapers to a point anteriorly, while behind it 
embraces the basisphenoidal rostrum between the palatals; but 
neither these nor the pterygoids are borne by its posterior divergent 
ends. The maxillopalatals are usually elongated, and, bending 
backward along their inner edge, leave a fissure (whence the name 
of the Suborder) between the vomer and themselves. In addition 
to these characters, the birds composing this group often want 
intrinsic muscles in the lower larynx, and never possess more than 
a single pair of them. With the exception of Podicipes (GREBE) all 
the genera which he had examined have two carotid arteries (Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 426-435; 456-460). 
SCHIZORHINAL, the epithet bestowed by Garrod (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1873, p. 36), in his first and crude systematic arrangement of 
Birds, on what appeared to him to be a “Suborder,” in contra- 
distinction to those possessing what he called the HOLORHINAL 
structure. This view was virtually abandoned by him within little 
more than twelve months (op. cif. 1874, pp. 111-123); but that 
fact has not hindered some writers from continuing to use these 
terms as if they had any taxonomic signification. 
SCIZZORS-TAIL, Milvulus forficatus, one of the most beautiful 
of the Tyrannidx (TYRANT), so called in some of the Southern 
States of North America from its habit of opening and closing its 
long and deeply-forked tail like the blades of a pair of scissors. 
It is only an accidental wanderer to the Northern or even the 
Middle States, but is or was abundant on the prairies of Texas, and 
inhabits Mexico and Central America as far as Costa Rica. With- 
out possessing any tints that may be called brilliant in its plumage, 
the delicate harmony of lavender-grey and rose-red that it displays 
—and it is very fond of the display—as well as its graceful form 
combine to make its appearance most engaging, and almost justify 
its being known, according to Mr. Dresser (Jbis, 1865, p. 472), in 
Western Texas as the “ Bird-of-Paradise ”—for its long tail (10 
inches) helps to give it that name, and its habits render it con- 
spicuous. It is of a fearless disposition and quarrelsome towards 
its fellows, though it will join with them in playful and lofty 
