CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 41 



147. Myiodioctes pusillus (Wils.) Bp. B 213. c 102. R 125. 



Green Black-capped Flycatching Warbler. 



148. Myiodioctes pusillus pileolatus (Pull.) Riclg. B . c I02a. R I25a. 



Pacific Black-capped Flycatching Warbler. 



149. Myiodioctes canadensis (L.) And. B 214, 215. c 103. R 127. 



Canadian Flycatching Warbler. 



150. Cardellina rubrifrons (Gir.) Scl. B . c . R isi. 



Red-fronted Flycatching Warbler. 



151. Setophaga picta Sw. B2is. c 105. R 129. 



Painted Flycatching Warbler. 



152. Setophaga ruticilla (L.) Sw. B 217. c 104. R 128. 



American Redstart. 



153. Certhiola bahamensis Reich. B 301. c 106. R 159. (!W. I.) 



Bahaman Honey Creeper. 



147. M. pu-sH'-lus. See Sttta, No. 60. 



143. M. p. pi-16-6-la'-tus. Lat. pileum or pilcolum, Gr. vIXos, a kind of cap, a skull-cap; pileo- 

 latus, capped. In late days, pileum has become a technical word in ornithology, meaning 

 the top of the head. 



149. M. can-a-den'-sls. Latinized from Canada, with the termination -ensis. Canada is said to 



be the Iroquois word Kanata, a village or collection of huts. 



150. Car-del-li'-na rub-ri'-frons. Apparently an arbitrary variation from Lat. carduelis, a 



kind of finch, from cardans, a thistle. Lat. ruber, red, andfrons, the forehead. The pro- 

 nunciation of rubrifrons is in question; everybody says roo'bryfrdnz ; as it* is not a classic 

 word, we can only mark it by analogy with such words as rubrlco, &c. But see above, 

 Dendrceca, No. 126, in favor of rUb'rifrons, as the i here comes before /"and a liquid. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the List ; since discovered by H. W. Henshaw in New Mexico. 



151. Se-t6'-pha-ga pic'-ta. Gr. <Hjs, genitive fft\r6s, an insect; and tyaye'iv, to eat. The con- 



necting vowel o need not lengthen before;^, as this is only equivalent in force to f. 

 Lat. pictits, painted, pictured, here in the sense of brightly or highly colored ; piiiyo, I 

 paint, depict. 



152. S. rut-I-cil'-la. Lat. rittilus, reddisli ; for the rest see Motacilla, No. 86. The word is exactly 



equal to redstart, which is Anglicized from the Germ. JRotbftcrt or SfJctfyftcrj, all three words 

 meaning simply redtail. 



153. Cer-thI'-6-la ba-ha-men'-sis. CertJtioIa is a coined diminutive of Certhia, which see, 



No. 62 ; we usually hear it accented on a long penult, which is certainly vicious. Baha- 

 mensis is Latinized from Bahama. 



In the first ed. of the Check List, this species stands as C.flaveola, corrected in the 

 Appendix. If we were to use the latter, it would be fldcula, notfldreola. Certhiola is 

 correctly formed as a diminutive from Certhia, like lincola from linen ; for the general rule, 

 however, in cases when the stem ends in a consonant, we may recall the exquisite lines 

 attributed to the death-bed of Hadrian : 



Animula vagula blandula, 



Hospes comesque corporis, 



Quae nunc abibis in loca, 



Pallidula rigida nuclula, 



Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos ? 



