[247] Trichoglossi.
[248] Professor Garrod in Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1872, p. 787.
[249] “Stray Feathers,” 1877, p. 385.
[250] “Bird-life,” p. 595.
[251] Sharpe’s edition of Layard’s “Birds of South Africa,” p. 141.
[252] γῆ, earth, and κινέω, I shake; viridis, green.
[253] The classical Greek name, from its double note sounding like the exclamation ἰΰ, hence the verb ἰΰζω, I cry out.
[254] Compare Fig. 1, ch.; this bone usually exists in a paired condition, but in Woodpeckers and some other birds it appears single by the confluence of its members. In many birds the “basi-hyal” is succeeded by the “uro-hyal” (Fig. 1, b. br.), a bone altogether absent whenever the tongue is capable of extraordinary protrusion.
[255] σφῦρα, a hammer; picus, a woodpecker.
[256] Yarrell, “British Birds,” vol. ii., p. 137.