MOOR- TITLING MO RILLON 



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 



NOTOKNIS. Natural size. (From Buller.) 



keeping for the latter the name N. mantelli gave t]ie former that of N. 

 hochstetteri. A third species ascribed to the genus, N. alba, is said to have 

 once inhabited Lord Howe's and Norfolk Islands, but is now extinct, 

 a specimen at Vienna (Ibis, 1873, p. 295, pi. x.) being its sole remains. 1 



MOOR-TITLINGr, a common local name in Scotland and the 

 North of England for the TITLARK. 



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 OWL, SpUoglaux 

 novx-zealandide, but in Tasmania that of Podargus cuvieri (NIGHTJAR), 

 in each case from the cry of the bird. 



MORILLON, a name commonly given by fowlers to the female 

 and immature male of the GOLDEN-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). 



