CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 1S1 



854. Fratercula arctica (L.) Stoph. B 715. c 618. R 743. 



Common Puffin ; Sea Parrot. 



855. Fratercula arctica glacialis (Leach) Coues. B 714. c eisa. R 743a. 



Large-billed Puffin. 



856. Fratercula cirrata (Pall.) Steph. B 712, 716. c 619. R 745. 



Tufted Puffin. 



857. Ceratorhina monocerata (Pall.) Cass. B 717, 718. c 620. R 746. 



Horn-billed Auk. 



858. Simorhynchus psittaculus (Pall.) Schl. B 725. c 621. R 747. 



Parroquet Auk. 



859. Simorhynchus cristatellus (Pall.) Merr. B 710, 720. c 622. R 748. 



Crested Auk. 



860. Simorhynchus pygmseus (Gm.) Ridg. B 721. c 623. R 749. 



Whiskered Auk. 



861. Simorhynchus pusillus (Pall.) Coues. B 722, 723. c 624. R 750. 



Knob-billed Auk. 



862. Ftychorhamphus aleuticus (Pall.) Brdt. B 724. c 625. R 751. 



Aleutian Auk. 



this, the application of the word to the birds is to be sought in their stout puffy shape, 

 that which appears to have caused the English word puffin. See Puffinus, No. 831. Lat. 

 corniculata, horned, a diminutive of cornutus: referring to the acute epidermal process on 

 the upper eyelid, which is deciduous, being shed like the horns of deer. 



854. F. arc'-ti-ca. See Sialia, No. 29. 



855. F. a. gla-cl-a'-lls. See Harelda, No. 728. 



856. F. clr-ra'-ta. Lat. cirratus or cirrhatus, having curled locks, or ringlets, curly-haired; 



cirrus or ctrrhus, a curl of hair ; well applied to this oddly feather-tufted bird. 



857. Cer-at-6-rhi'-na mo-no-cer-a'-ta. Gr. Kipas, genitive Keparos, a horn, and pis, genitive 



pivos, the nose ; alluding to the prominent deciduous horn which grows up from the 

 base of the bill, over the nostrils. Gr. /j.6vos, only, alone, single, transliterated as Lat. 

 mono-, in composition, and Kepas, horn, Latinized as ceras, ceratis, whence an adjective 

 form, ceratus, horned; that is, unicorn, one-horned. 



858. Si-mo-rhyn'-chus psit-ta'-cu-lus. Gr. <n/j.os, flat-nosed, snub-nosed, like the negro ; pvyx *- 



beak ; well applied to these birds, whose bills are singularly shaped. The same idea is 

 expressed in the Latin simia, an ape, whence our English simian, become a common 

 word since Darwinism has been so much discussed. Lat. psittaculus, a little parrot, 

 diminutive of psittacus. See Sitta, No. 57. 



859. S. crls-ta-tel'-lus. Lat. diminutive of cristatus, crested. 



860. S. pyg-mae'-us. See Sitta, No. 61. 



This is S. camtschaticus of the orig. eel. ; but Alca pygmcea Gm. is based on the young 

 of the same species, called S. cassitii by Coues. 



861. S. pus-il'-lus. See Sitta, No. 60. 



862. Pty-cho-rham'-phus a-leu'-ti-cus. Gr. VTV\, genitive irrvxos, a fold, and pd/nQos, the 



beak ; well alluding to the wrinkled covering of the bill ; which, by analogy with what 

 is known of other species, may be taken as an indication that the soft part concerned 

 will be found to grow some kind of excrescence, not yet discovered. Lat. aleuticus, 

 of the Aleutian Islands, the country of the people called Aleuts. 



