. A dictionary of birds . NoTOKNis. Natural size. (From BuUer.) keeping for the latter the name N. mantelli gave the former that of A third species ascribed to the genus, N. alba, is said to haveonce inhabited Lord Howes and ISTorfolk Islands, but is now extinct,a specimen at Vienna (Ibis, 1873, p. 295, pi. x.) being its sole remains.^ MOOR-TITLINGr, a common local name in Scotland and theNorth of England for the Titlark. MOORUK, the native name of the species of CassowaryjDeculiar to New Britain, and adopted as an English word. MOOSE-BIED, a name for the Canada Jay. MOREPOEK, i
. A dictionary of birds . NoTOKNis. Natural size. (From BuUer.) keeping for the latter the name N. mantelli gave the former that of A third species ascribed to the genus, N. alba, is said to haveonce inhabited Lord Howes and ISTorfolk Islands, but is now extinct,a specimen at Vienna (Ibis, 1873, p. 295, pi. x.) being its sole remains.^ MOOR-TITLINGr, a common local name in Scotland and theNorth of England for the Titlark. MOORUK, the native name of the species of CassowaryjDeculiar to New Britain, and adopted as an English word. MOOSE-BIED, a name for the Canada Jay. MOREPOEK, in New Zealand the name of an OwL, Spiloglauxnovse-zealanclix, but in Tasmania that of Fodargus cuvieri (Nightjar),in each case from the cry of the bird. MORILLON, a name commonly given by foAvlers to the femaleand immature male of the Golden-Eye, the Clangula gkmcion of ^ The genus Aptornis, of which Prof. Owen described the remains from NfWZealand as nearly allied to Noturiiis and Porphyria, is considered by Prof. T.
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