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Diomedeidae / Họ Hải âu mày

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General names

The following is based on analysis of dictionaries and other sources. Comments and corrections are welcome.

Vietnamese naturalists assign the name Hải âu to the Procellariiformes (albatrosses and shearwaters).

The word Hải âu is borrowed from Chinese 海鷗 hǎi-ōu, meaning 'seagull'. Despite the scientific use for albatrosses and shearwaters, the word Hải âu is also used in the meaning of 'seagull' in Vietnamese.

Some dictionaries (English-Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese) list Hải âu lớn ('large hai au') and Hải nga (from Chinese 海鵝 hǎi-é 'sea goose') for the albatross.

Species names

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SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN
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Thalassarche              
Thalassarche melanophrys
Diomedea melanophris
 Black-browed albatross
Black-browed Mollymawk
Albatros à sourcils noirs		 Hải âu mày đen
'black-eyebrowed hai au'		   黑眉信天翁
hēi-méi xìntiānwēng
'black-eyebrowed albatross'		 マユグロアホウドリ
(眉黒信天翁 or 眉黒阿房鳥)
mayu-guro ahō-dori
'black-eyebrowed albatross'