NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Found in Thessaty. 



Names tn parts of Greece. 



15. Anas Cygnus 



16. A. — 



17. A. 



18. Sterna Hirundo 



19. Sterna Nasvia 



20. S. Vulgaris 



TTpUS'lVOTCetpeCA.I, 

 XOKKlVOKltpCcXl. 



-^sXiSovi rqq GacXa <T(Ti\q. aa^oc(3a,Xcx.KOi in Graecia. 

 Id. 



GRALL^E. 



Found in Cyprus. 



1. Ardea Purpurascens QepK07rovXt. 



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 

 lis T. Cinclus 

 12. T. Littorea 



Names in parts of Greece. 



Id. 



TpoAcup/da Tvjg QocXoccrtrrig. 

 vepoX/^/. 



QsKKOtT^OVVl. Id. 



irXcvuih. 



yiozi in Thessal. 



Notes by the Editor. 



2. Ardea Nyc. called at Constantinople vujcnxo'paxa, Forskal. It is the /3u«j 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 Arquata. The name of the curlew, says Buffon, Courtis, tourlis, is an 

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



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

 the neighbourhood of rivers, vepo\ih. " Ad ripas fluviorum," says Linnaeus. 



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

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



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