The name Гургалдай gurgaldai is traditionally applied to a range of birds famous for their song, including orioles, robins, and nightingales. Ornithologically it has been restricted to the meaning 'robin' in the Mongolian names. Here it is arbitrarily glossed as 'oriole', but it should be kept in mind that the actual meaning is far broader.
The name чогчиго chogchig appears to have been pressed into service as a variant of чогчоохой chogchookhoi. However, it is not clear whether this name traditionally belongs to the chats. In Inner Mongolia it is used for the shrikes.
The name Тонголзуур tonggolzuur is related to the verb тонголзох tonggolzokh, which means to repeatedly bow or stoop down and stand back up again. In (31) the name is spelt toNgoljoor in the traditional script, but can also be found spelt toNgoljagor.
Named after Japanese ornithologist Ogawa Minori (小川三紀), 1876-1908.
The meaning of jō here is not clear. It can be written with the characters 尉 'officer, captain', 常 'always', or 上 'above' respectively.
(34) lists both Although it uses the character 鹟 wēng ('flycatcher') rather than 翁 wēng ('old man'), this name is identical in pronunciation to the popular name of the Light-vented Bulbul 白头翁 bái-tóu-wēng (Pycnonotidae).
The word 鮮卑 xiānbēi refers to an ancient Mongolic-speaking ethnic group living in the area of modern eastern Mongolia and northeastern China. They established a large empire in the early centuries of the Christian era and one branch later established the Northern Wei dynasty in China (386-535). This name for Muscicapa sibirica possibly reflects the theory that the Xianbei gave their name to Siberia.
The magua (马褂) was a kind of riding jacket originally worn by the Manchus (see Magua).
The word oanh, from Chinese 鶯 yīng, traditionally refers to the Black-Naped Oriole. In ornithological Vietnamese it is also used for the robins.
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