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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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TRAILII. Zool. Specif. name of several genera of birds, Contopus Muscicapa or American flycatcher (1826 J. J. Audubon Birds Amer. I. 65), Pastor, or rose-coloured starling of the Levant (1832 N. A. Vigors Proc. & Comm. Sci. Zool. Soc. XIV. 175), Oriolus, an oriole from Indo-China, and others; also of a Cheirolepis, or fossil fish from Orkney (1835 J. L. R. Agassiz Poissons Fossiles II. 130).

[After T. S. Traill (1781–1862), of Orkney, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Edinburgh, and zoologist.]