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BUDYNAMYS : Vigors and Horsfield give the derivation of this word in the 
Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond., Vol. XV., “ eu bene ” (good), “ dynamis potentia ” 
(power). An earlier name of the bird had been Dynamene (one of the Nereids), 
which, it appears,^ was found to bo preoccupied, and was, therefore, altered 
to Eudynamys. Koel, a Hindoo name of a cuckoo, was later extended to other 
species of the genus. 
EUORNITHES : = Real flying birds. The common Greek adverb eu (well, good) 
often prefixed to other words, and ornithe* , plural of ornis , bird. 
EUPODOTIS : Gk. eupous, eupodos , having good feet, and otis , a bustard. 
EURYSTOAUJS : Broad bill. 
EXCALFACTORI A : Excaljactoriu$ is a Late Latin (Plinian) adjective meaning 
“hot" and seems a strange name; but Sir William Jardine (Naturalists' 
Library), writing of Quail in CTiina, says—“ They are here domesticated and 
trained to fight and large sums are risked on the result as in the cockpit. 
They are also used by the Chinese to warm their hands in cold weather, 
their bodies being thought to contain a large proportion of animal heat from 
the pugnacious disposition of their tempers.” 
falcinella : L. sickle or scythe, from the shape of the bird’s beak; diminutive of falx. 
fascinatis : A Latham name, probably from the reports which reached him 
from early settlers, to whom the bird was known as the “ lesser fascinating 
bird,” from its habit of fascinating insects on the ground, by hovering over 
them. The Scissors Grinder was called the “ fascinating ” bird, and the 
Jackv Winter the lessor one. 
flabelllfera : L. = fanbearing — flabellum , fan, and fero, I bear. 
FREGATA : Latinized from French frigate, frigate, the name given by French 
sailors, on account of the bird’s habit of cruising about near other species, 
and pursuing them. Fregetta (genus of storm petrels) seems an intentional 
variation in spelling simply to differentiate. 
friar-bird : See Philemon. 
frontatus : L. literally “fronted,” or with conspicuous “ frons ” or forehead. 
FREGETTA : See Fregata. 
FROGMOUTH : See Podargus. 
fuciphaga : Means seaweed-eating. The nests were thought to be made of 
seaweed collected by the birds. It is a hybrid word, half Latin, half Greek, 
cf . flaviprymna and daetylalra.. 
FUL1CA : Is from the root of fuligo , soot and refers to the dark colour of 
the bird. So Fuligula is a name of the British Tufted Duck, a bird of dark 
plumage mostly. 
GABIANUS : New Latin. Gabian is said to be the name of a gull in Marseilles 
(Aldrovandus). Italian Qabbiano= a gull. 
galactoles : There is a classical Greek word, galactodes , meaning “ like milk. ” 
This bird is not white, and the spelling, galactotes , has been used for another 
bird. It is a puzzle. 
GALLINULA : L atin diminutive from gallvs , cock, means small hen. Gallinago 
is a feminine form from gallus. 
garzetla : Latinized from an Italian diminutive of garza , heron. 
gavia : Seems to be an Italian word signifying gull, and used as a Latin word. 
Ray speaks of the Shearwater as a “seafowl swimming swiftly to and from and 
doth as it were, radere aquam , shear the water from whence, perhaps, it had its 
name.” 
GEOBASILEUS : See reguloides. 
GERYGONE : A Greek word meaning “born of sound.” Cents, sound, gout , 
birth. It occurs in the Idylls of the Greek pastoral poet Theocritus. 
GLAREOLA : From L. glarca , gravel. The bird was found in gravelly places. 
GLICIPHILA : Should have been spelt like Glycichsera, glycerine. The u in 
Greek glukus Bhouhl become y in English derivatives. 
