. A dictionary of birds . odwit) and Yaup or Wliaup (Curlew). Barker and Clinker seem to have been names used in Norfolk. - The same kind of lamentable destruction has of late been carried on inHolland and Denmark, to the extirpation probably of the species in eachcountry. AXILLA—BABBLER 25 fourth species, R. novse hollandim or rubricollis, witli a chestnut headand neck; but the European it. avocetta extends over nearly theAvhole of middle and southern Asia as well as Africa. The proposal {Ibis, 1886, pp. 224-237) to unite the Avosetsand Stilts in a single genus seems to have little to recomme
. A dictionary of birds . odwit) and Yaup or Wliaup (Curlew). Barker and Clinker seem to have been names used in Norfolk. - The same kind of lamentable destruction has of late been carried on inHolland and Denmark, to the extirpation probably of the species in eachcountry. AXILLA—BABBLER 25 fourth species, R. novse hollandim or rubricollis, witli a chestnut headand neck; but the European it. avocetta extends over nearly theAvhole of middle and southern Asia as well as Africa. The proposal {Ibis, 1886, pp. 224-237) to unite the Avosetsand Stilts in a single genus seems to have little to recommendit but its novelty, and Avill hardly meet with acceptance bysystematists. AXILLA (adj. axillary), the arm-pit, whence, or from theadjoining part of the arm, arise in many birds some elongatedfeathers (axillaries or lower humeral coverts), constituting thehypoptcron. In most water-birds, especially in Numenkis, and Grus,but also in a few others, as Coracias, some of these feathers arevery long, straight, and slender. B. Pellorneum. Crateropus. BABBLER, apparently first used in ornithology in 1837, bySwainson (Glassif. B. ii. 233), for the birds, assigned by himto the subfamily Crateropoclinse, belonging to the genera Pellor-7ietim, Crateropus,Grallina, Malacocer-cus (including as asubgenus Timalia ofHorsfield) and Ptero-pitockus (Tapaculo).With the exceptionof the third and thelast these forms arenow commonly re-garded as forming part of the FamilyTimeliidps (often but less accuratelyvrritten Timaliidai), which no system-atist has yet been able to definesatisfactorily, while many have notunjustly regarded it as a refuge forthe destitute—thrustins; into it agreat number of forms, chiefly Oscin-ine, that, with a bill resembling a Cinclorhamphus. Shrikes, a Thrushs, or a War- (After swainson.) blers, mostly possess very short and incurved wings, and cannot,in the opinion of some, be conveniently stowed elsewhere. Twovolumes (vi. and vii.) of the Catalogue of Birds in tJie Bri
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