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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. 95