Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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ROUALEYNI. Zool. Specif. name of Strepsiceros, the bush antelope of Guinea, so called by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming of Altyre (1820–66), African game-hunter, after himself in his book Five Years of a Hunter's Life (1850) II. 165).
