106 CHECK LIST OF NOETH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



652. Endocimus ruber (L.) "VVagl. B 498. c 447. R 502. 



Scarlet Ibis. 



653. Ajaja rosea (Briss.) Reich. B 501. c 448. R 505. 



Roseate Spoonbill. 



654. Mycteria americana L. B . c 448&/ s . R 499. (!M.) 



American Jabiru. 



655. Ardea herodias L. B 487. c 449. R 487. 



Great Blue Heron. 



656. Ardea occidentalis And. B 488, 489. c 450, 451. R 486. 



Great White Heron ; Florida Heron. 



657. Ardea cinerea L. B . c . R4S8. (G.) 



European Blue Heron. 



658. Herodias egretta (Gm.) Gr. B 486, 486*. c 452. R 489. 



Great White Egret. 



659. Garzetta candidissima (Gm.) Bp. B 485. c 453. R 490. 



Little White Egret ; Snowy Heron. 



660. Hydranassa tricolor (Mull.) Ridg. B 484. c 454. R 492. 



Louisiana Heron. 



652. E. rub'-gr. Lat. ruber, red. This is Ibis rubra in the orig. ed. 



653. Ajaja ro'-sg-a. Lat. roseus or rosaceus, rosy, rose-red; rosa, a rose; related to Gr. p6Sov; 



see for instance in rhodocofpus, rose-breasted. Ajaja or ajaia or aiaia or ai/aya is the old 

 Brazilian name of this bird, of signification and pronunciation alike unknown to us. 



This stands as Platalea ajaja in the orig. ed. ; for the change of this long-standing 

 name, see Ridg., Pr. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, p. 10. 



654. Myc-te'-ri-a am-gr-i-ca'-na. Gr. ^vKT-ftp, the nose, sncut; (tvttT-npifa, literally, "I work 



the nose," i. e., turn up the nose at, sneer, scorn, deride, &c. ; well applied to the expres- 

 sion of this ugly bird. 



655. Ar'-dg-a her'-o'-dl-as. Lat. ardea, a heron. Gr. epwS.as, epwSas, or epcaStos, a heron. 



There is also a proper name Herodias. 



656. A. oc-ci-den-ta'-Hs. See Dendrceca, No. 113. 



NOTE. The Ardea wurdemanni of the orig. ed. is a dichroism of this species. See 

 Ridg., Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., iv, No. 1, 1878, p. 227. 



657. A. c!n-r'-e-a. Lat. cinereus, ashy. See Harporhijnchus, No. 22. 



Not in the orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Reinh., 

 Ibis, 1801, p. 9. 



658. H6r-6'-dI-as e-gret'-ta. Latin proper name Herodias: see Ardea, No. 655. Egretta is 



Latinized from the French aigrette, a top-knot, plume; whence also egret. These words 

 are said to be related to heron itself, all springing from O. H. G. hiegro, a heron. 



659. Gar-zet'-ta can-dl-dis'-sT-ma. Garzetta is the Italian name of the corresponding Euro- 



pean species. Lat. candidissima, very white, entirely white; superlative of cundldus. 

 See Fnko, No. 501. 



660. Hyd-ra-nas'-sa tri'-c<5l-Sr. Gr. vScap, water, giving in Latin hydra-, and vaacra or fT/vcra,, a 



water-fowl ; from a verb meaning to swim. We have here two words very fruitful of 

 derivatives ; one giving us the compounds of hi/dr-, as hydraulic, the other those relating 

 to the sea, a ship, or swimming: nautical, aeronaut, nany, navigate, nausea; the latter is 

 originally " sea "-sickness, and literally " ship "-sickness. Lat. tricolor, three-colored. 



This stands as Ardea Ifucogastra var. leucoprymna in the orig. ed. See Ridg., Bull. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., iv, No. 1, 1878, p. 224. 



