48 CHECK LIST OF NOETH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



197. Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus (Cab.) Ridg. B . c I4io. R noa. 



Rose-breasted Fincli. 



198. Loxia leucoptera Gm. B 319. c 142. R m. 



White-winged Crossbill. 



199. Loxia curvirostra americana (Wils.) Coues. B sis. c 143. R 172. 



Common American Crossbill. 



200. Loxia curvirostra mexicana (Strickl.) Coues. B . c I43a. R i72a. 



Mexican Crossbill. 



201. Leucosticte atrata Ridg. B . c . R 176. 



Ridgway's Rosy Finch. 



202. Leucosticte australis Allen. B . c . R 177. 



Allen's Rosy Finch. 



203. Leucosticte tephrocotis Sw. B 322. c 144. R 175. 



Swainson's Rosy Finch. 



204. Leucosticte tephrocotis litoralis (Bd.) Cones. B . c R i75a. 



Baird's Rosy Finch. 



197. C. f. rh6-d6-col'-pus. Gr. p6Sov, the rose, and /CO'ATTOS, the breast; in allusion to the rose- 



red color of that part. 



The form C.f. hamorrkous, given in the orig. ed. of the Check List, is the Mexican 

 race; the above should replace No. 141a. 



198. L6x'-I-a Ieu-c5p'-t-ra. Gr. A.o|/as, an epithet of Apollo, whose oracles were sometimes 



obscure or equivocal; from Ao|os, oblique, devious, deviating from a straight line; very 

 pertinent to the Crossbill. Gr. \evK<is, white, and irrep6v, wing. 



199. L. cur-vi-ros'-tra. Lat. curvus, curved ; and rostrum, bill. In this and numberless similar 



cases of a noun compounded with an antecedent adjective, the whole word is treated as 

 an adjective, capable of inflection according to gender. Thus curvirostra is as if curviros- 

 ter or curvirostr-us, -a, -urn. So we even find loiujicaud-us, -a, -um, like auricom-us, -a, -urn, 

 and the Vergilian centiman-us, -a, -um. In such a case as the present, the adjectival form 

 curvirostris (like -ventris) might be more elegant. But curvirostra has the sanction of 

 several centuries' use as a noun, having apparently been invented as a Latin synonym 

 of Loxia ; it is not, however, classic. Other synonyms are crucirostra, cruel/era, cruciata ; 

 Fr. Bec-croise', Germ, ^trcujjf^nabet, &c. 



200. L. c. mex-I-ca'-na. Lat. mexicana, of Mexico. See Sialia, No. 28. 



291. Leu-co-stic'-te a-tra'-ta. Gr. Asu/co's, white, and crriKT-fi, variegated; from a-rtfa, I punc- 

 ture, brand, or mark. Lat. atrata, blackened ; a participial adjective, from an obsolete 

 or rather hypothetical verb atro. 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List ; described from Colorado by Ridgway, Amer. 

 Sportsm., iv, No. 16, p. 241, July 18, 1874. 



202. L. aus-tra'-lls. Lat. australis, southern; from ouster, the south wind, hot and dry; this 



from Gr. atiu, I dry up or parch. 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List, as then not supposed valid. 



203. L. teph-rS-co'-tts. Gr. re<f>pos, gray, ashy, from retypa, ashes ; and ous, genitive wr6s, the 



ear ; the connective consonant c being introduced for euphony. 



204. L. t. li-tQr-a'-lis. Lat. litoralis, littoral ; from lit us, the shore, of sea, lake, or river. The 



word is commonly written littoralis, but preferably as above. 



Not in the first ed. of the Check List, as not then supposed to be valid. 



