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vieilloti .—Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748-1831), a celebrated French orni¬ 
thologist, who published (April, 1810) his Analyse d'unc nouveUe Orni- 
thologie which dealt with many Australian birds. 
wallicus .—Of (New South) Wales. 
wellsi .—T. Wells, ornithologist, British Museum, London. 
whitei (Malums ).—S. White (1835-1880), ornithologist, contemporary of J. 
Gould. 
whitei ( Amytomis ).—Captain S. A. White, ornithologist (son of above-named), 
Adelaide, South Australia. 
whitei (Falcunculus ).—H. L. White, of Belltrees, New South Wales. 
whitei ( Lacustroica ).—Alfred White, son of H. L. White. 
whitlocki .—F. Lawson Whitlock, collector for H. L. White in Western and 
Central Australia. 
woodioardi .—B. H. Woodward, a former director of Perth Museum, Western 
Australia. 
yorki .—Cape York, Australia. 
E.—SUGGESTED PRONUNCIATION IN SYLLABLES OF 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES. 
The mark ' indicates the syllable to be accented. 
The marks - or — over vowels show ilieir quantity ; that is whelher they are long or short 
by nature. 
Diphthongs are always long. 
In words of more than two syllables , the quantity of the penultimate (the second last) syllable 
determines, as a rule , the position of the accent. 
If the penultimate syllable is long it carries the accent; it is long if its vowel is — 
(1) long by nature , as in Cinclosd'ma ; 
(2) long by position ; that is followed by two consonants or by either of the conso¬ 
nants x or z, as in Melior'nis, paradox'a. 
If the penultimate syllable, is short (that is, if its vowel is short) the antepenultimate syllable 
(the third last) carries the accent , as in Hylac'ula, Gli-ciph'ila , chrys-op'tcra. 
Two accents may be given to poly syllables, particularly when they are compound words , and 
this method of pronunciation has been adopted where it is thought preferable for some of the 
polysyllabic compound names. Bach part retains the accent it had as a single word , e.g., 
Phal-'ac-ro-co-'rax, MeV-a-uo-dry' -as, Pd-a-go-dro'-ma. 
The pronunciation here indicated is the English , not the “ Continenlal ” or “ Homan," 
pronunciation of Latin. 
Pronounce a as in fate ; d as in fat ; 
e as in Peter : e as in pet ; 
t as in site ; i as in sit ; 
o as in note ; 6 as in not ; 
u as in cute ; u as in cut; 
au as in audience ; 
ce and on as e ; ai as i ; 
c (soft) as s before c, i , and y ; 
c (hard) as h before a, 0 , and u ; 
ch as k ; 
Vowels not marked are short in the following names :— 
A c -an th' -a-gen'-ys 
Ac-anth-iz'-a 
Ac-nnth-o-rhynch us 
Ac-anth-brn'-is 
Ac-cip'-il-er 
Ac-ro-ceph'-al-us 
ac-u'-min-a'-ta 
ac-u'-ti-caud'-a 
ad-sex'-tus 
A£-gin'Aha 
Mg-o-ihel'-es 
ce-qui'-noct-i-d'-lis 
af-fin'is 
Ai-de-mos'-y-ne 
Ail-ur-ced'-us 
al'-ba 
al-bd'-ta 
al'-bi-frons 
al-bi-lin-e-d'-ta 
al-bi-pen'-nis 
al-bi-ven'-ter 
al-bo-gu-lar'-is 
AV-cy-6-ne 
Al-ect-ur'-a 
am-d-bil-is 
A m-aur'-o-dry'-as 
Am-aur-orn'-is 
A-my-torn'-is 
an-ce-the'-ta 
an-al'-og-a 
An'-as 
An-hinq'-a 
an-nu-lb'-sa 
