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Common quail.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Nebojša Tejić, STA.
Common nightingale.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Nebojša Tejić, STA.
BIRDS IN SLOVENIAN
Common starling.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Nebojša Tejić, STA.
Zois’s ornithological endeavours are less
known and less well researched. The National
and University Library has two extraordinary
manuscripts of ornithological records from the
late 18 th century. The Ornithological Diary is a
systematic record of bird names comprising 430
species’ scientific names and names in French
and German. In Nomenclatura Carniolica, Zois
recorded for the first time the Slovenian names
of the vast majority of birds then known to sci-
ence in Carniola.
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