8 1 4 SA TIN-BIRD SCA MEL 



SATIN-BIRD, one of the BOWER-BIRDS (p. 49), Ptilorhynchus 

 violaceus or holosericeus, so-called from its glossy plumage. 



SATIN-SPARROW, the name in Tasmania for Myiagra nitida, 

 a FLYCATCHER. 



SAURIUR^E or SAURIURI, Prof. Hackel's names in 1866 

 (Gen. Morphol i. p. cxxxix.) for the first of his two Subclasses of 

 Aves, consisting so far as is at present known of Archseopteryx 

 (FossiL BIRDS, pp. 278-280), his second Subclass being named 

 OrnHhurx, and composed of two "Legions," (1) Autophagse or 

 NlDlFUG^:, the latter therefore not used in the same sense as in the 

 present work (p. 635) ; and (2) Psedotroplids or INSESSORES (p. 459), 

 which last differs from the meaning attached to it by Vigors. 

 Prof. Huxley having adopted the modified term SAURURJE as 

 one of his Orders (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 418), it has come into 

 general use, while Ornitliurse may be said to have lapsed. 1 



SAUROGNATH^E, the late Prof. W. K. Parker's name (Trans. 

 R. Micros. Soc. 1872, p. 219) for the CELEOMORPILE of Prof. 

 Huxley (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 456), consisting of the Picidaz 

 (WOODPECKER) and lynginx, (WRYNECK), thereby raising them to 

 the same rank as the latter's other Suborders of CARINAT^E. 



SAVANNA BLACKBIRD, a common West-Indian name of 

 Orotophoga ani (ANI). 



SAWBILL, a name commonly given to the GOOSANDER and 

 MERGANSER, and also used in some books for the MOTMOTS. 



SAW-SHARPENER, a widely-spread local name for the Great 

 TITMOUSE, Parus major, from the peculiar song of the cock. 



SAW-WHET, a little OWL, Nydala acadica, so-called in Audubon's 

 words (Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 567) from "the sound of its love-notes 

 bearing a great resemblance to the noise produced by filing the 

 teeth of a large saw." 



SAYSIE, a name applied in South Africa to several FINCHES of 

 the genus Crithagra (Layard, B. S. Afr. ed. 2, pp. 485-487). 



SCALE-DUCK, a local name for the SHELD-DRAKE. 



SCAMEL, a word, used once by Shakespear (Tempest, Act II. 

 Sc. ii., line 176), that has given rise to many conjectures (cf. Wright, 

 Cambr. Shakesp. i. p. 51); but is commonly accepted as a bird's 

 name, a signification rendered more likely by the fact that at 

 Blakeney, on the coast of Norfolk, it was applied to a GODWIT 

 (Stevenson, B. Norf. ii. p. 260), though it is not to be supposed that 

 Shakespear used it in that sense. It seems to be otherwise 



1 Botanists, however, had made a prior application of Saururas. 



