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871. Uria grylle (L.) Briiun. B 726. c 631. R 760. 



Black Guillemot ; Sea Pigeon. 



872. Uria columba (Pall.) Cass. B 727. c 632. R 761. 



Pigeon Guillemot. 



873. Uria carbo (Pall.) Brdt. B 728. c 633. R 762. 



Sooty Guillemot. 



874. Lomvia troile (L.)'Brdt. B 729, 730. c 634. R 763. 



Common Guillemot; 3Iurre. 



875. Lomvia troile californica (Bry.) Coues. B . c . R 763a. (?) 



California Guillemot. 



876. Lomvia arra (Pall.) Coues. B 731. c 635. R 764, 764a. 



Thick-billed Guillemot. 



877. Utamania torda (L.) Leach. B 711. c 616. R 742. 



Razor-billed Auk. 



878. Alca impennis L. B 710. c 615. R 741. 



Great Auk. 







871. U'-ri-a gryl'-le. Gesner and others state that ovpta is the Greek name of a guillemot, 



or some other water-bird. Uria occurs all through ornithology from Gesner, and was 

 made a genus by Brisson in 1760. The meaning we do riot know; perhaps akin to 

 urinari, Skr. ndri, water. Gylle is said to be from Gr. ypv\\ia>, I grunt ; the bird has 

 been called sibilans by some ; but grisla and grylle are N. European names. 



872. U. col-um'-ba. Lat. columba, a pigeon, applied in the same way that we call the bird 



" sea-pigeon " in English. 



873. U. car'-bo. Lat. carbo, a coal, charcoal; here used in allusion to the uniformly sooty 



color, as if the bird were charred. 



874. L6m'-vi-a tro-i'-le. Lomwia and lomvia are two of many forms in which is found spelled 



the vernacular name of the bird, in Scotch, Fasroese, and related languages ; as Dan. 

 lun, Dutch loen, Eng. loon or loom. It was taken by Linnaeus for the specific, and much 

 later by Brandt for the generic name. Troile, on the contrary, may be of classic origin, 

 Troilus being the son of Priam ; also used as synonymous with Trojan ; application in 

 this case arbitrary, if any. Newton says " possibly a compliment to Troil, the Ice- 

 lander." Briinnich wrote it Troille in 1704 (Orn. Bor., p. 27). 



875. L. t. cal-i-f5r'-m-ca. Pertaining to the State of California. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since recognized by Ridgway. 



876. L. ar'-ra. Lat. arra or arrha was purchase-money, or a pledge in earnest of a contract, 



and might have been applied by Pallas to a bird in such demand by the natives as to 

 serve as a sort of unit or standard of exchange in barter. " Salerne says the great blue 

 parrot of Brazil is called Arras or Aras ; this seems here transferred to the sea-parrot." 

 (Wharton's MSS.) 



877. U-ta-man'-T-a tor'-da. Both these words are mere Latinizations of vernacular names. 



Utamania or utumania was in the bird-books long before Leach made a genus of it, and 

 so was tord or tordmule. We do not know what these words mean, further than that they 

 signify this species. Ray says (Syn., 1713, p. 119): "Ad litora Cretse invenitur; 

 indigenis ' Utamania ' dicta." 



878. Al'-ca im-pen'-nis. Alca is not classic, being merely a Latinization of the vernacular 



name, found in several different forms, as alk, alck, alka, auk, awk. The third of these 



