[167] D’Orbigny, “Voyage dans l’Amérique Meridionale,” p. 30.

[168] ῤίν (ῤίς), ῤινός, a nose; _gryphus_, as before, a Griffon, or Vulture; so called on account of its peculiar perforated nose.

[169] Helotarsus ecaudatus.

[170] Serpentarius, a devourer of Serpents.

[171] Secretarius, a secretary.

[172] Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1856, p. 348.

[173] Gymnogene: from two Greek words (γυμνός, bare, naked; γένυς, a cheek).

[174] Polyboroides: like a Polyborus or Caracara.

[175] Col. Irby, “Ornithology of the Strait of Gibraltar,” p. 34.

[176] μικρός, small; astur, a Goshawk. See “Lawrence’s Birds of Western and North-Western Mexico.” “Memoirs of the Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist.,” Vol. ii., p. 299.