. A dictionary of birds . comes further north than the countries 1 According to Mr. Quel eh, whose notes {loc. cit.) on the habits of the birdare very valuable, the name most commonly used is Hanna. - According to Littre, the French names are derived from the English, which,as Prof. Skeat kindly informs me, is allied to hober (whence, hover), to stir ormove from place to place, and from the same root also come hobby, a small (active)horse, hobelcr, a light horseman, and some other words. 5 This name seems to belong properly to birds of the genus Circus (Harrier),but has been misappropriated in
. A dictionary of birds . comes further north than the countries 1 According to Mr. Quel eh, whose notes {loc. cit.) on the habits of the birdare very valuable, the name most commonly used is Hanna. - According to Littre, the French names are derived from the English, which,as Prof. Skeat kindly informs me, is allied to hober (whence, hover), to stir ormove from place to place, and from the same root also come hobby, a small (active)horse, hobelcr, a light horseman, and some other words. 5 This name seems to belong properly to birds of the genus Circus (Harrier),but has been misappropriated in the same way as the German Weissbdcklcin, tosay nothing of Subbuteo and Hypotriorchis (which Gesner says should be Gypotri-orchis). Seeing how very distinct Hobbies and Harriers are in behaviour, hauntsand appearance, the confusion or change of name is inexplicable. HOLMCOCK—HOMCEOMERI 425 bordering the Mediterranean, and, though in some places abundant,is an extremely local bird. There is no member of this section in. to ^^^~^. Hobby. (After Wolf.) Xorth America, but the largest species belonging to it seems to bethe Neotropical H. femoralis, for H. diroleucus, though often assignedhere is now supposed to be one of the group of typical Falcons. HOLMCOCK, HOLM - THRUSH, names of the Mistletoe-TiiRUSH from its seeking the berries of the Holm or Holly-tree. HOLORHINAL, the epithet bestowed by Garrod {Proc. 1873, p. 33) in his first taxonomical paper, on what seemed tohim a Subclass of Birds ; and, although given up ])y him very soonafter (oj). cit. 1874, pp. 111-123), it has been absurdly used sinceby some systematizers, who have thereby made the introduction ofthe word here necessary. HOMALOGONAT^, the first of the two Subclasses, the otherbeing called Anomalogonat^, into which Garrod at one timedivided Birds, according as they possessed an Ambiens muscleor not {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 116-118), though he admittedthat there are a few undoubtedly homalogonatous bi
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