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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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MACGILLIVRAII. Zool. Specif. name of various animals, e.g. Pecten, a type of scallop shell (1845 T. Edmonston in Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. 250); Ammodramus, a bunting (1839 J. J. Audubon Synopsis 110), Sylvia, a warbler (1839 J. J. Audubon Ornith. Biogr. V. 75), Fringilla, a finch, (1834 Id. II. 285), all from America, Pelurotana, a gastropod slit-shell (1850 C. B. Adams in Contr. to Conch. IV. 54).
[From William Macgillivray (1796–1852), of Aberdeen, Professor of Botany in Marischal College, Aberdeen, who helped Audubon to publish his work.]
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