NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Foimd in Thessaly. , Names tn parts of Greece. 



15. Anas Cygnus Trpcxff-ivoKi^pxXi. 



16. A. xoKX.iVOK;(poi.Xi. .. 1, • ..• 



17. A. 



18. Sterna Hirundo 



19. Sterna Naevia 



20. S. Vulgaris 



^sXidovi Tvjg 6acXiX(r(rrig. Kapxl3xXtx.)ccc in Grsecia. 

 Id. 



GRALLiE. 



Found in Cyprus. 



1. Ardea Purpurascens ^epxoTrouA 



2. A. Nycticorax 



3. A. Alba 



4. A. Major 



5. A. Minuta 



6. Scolopax Arquata 



7. S. Cyprius 



8. S. Totanus 



9. S. Gallinago 



10. Tringa Varia 



11. T. Cinclus 



12. T. Littorea 



Names in parts of Greece. 



Id. 



TfoXovfiooc T)jf QccXoccr(ri^i;. 

 veftoXiOi. 



/oeKKXT^OUVl. Id. 



yioKt in Thessal. 



Notes by the Editor. 



2. Ardea Nye. called at Constantinople vuxrixopaxa, Forskal. It is the /Suaj of Aristot. 

 Lib. viii. c. 5. H. A. Schn. 



5. Ardea Minuta. See a representation of this bird in Russell's Aleppo, ii. 



6. Scolopax Ai-quata. The name of the curlevr, says Buffon, Courlis, tourlis, is an 

 imitation ,of its voice. The Romaic term is also T^oupAi. 



8. Scolopax Tot. The Romaic name of the spotted redshank refers to its frequenting 

 the neighbourhood of rivers, vipoxlit. " Ad ripas fluviorum," says Linnfeus. 



9. Scolopax G. The snipe arrives in Egypt ui November when the rice is taken off 

 from the fields, and passes the winter there. — Sonnini. 



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