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67. Catherpes mexicanus conspersus Ridg. B . c 46. R 59a. 



Speckled Canon Wren. 



68. Thryothorus ludovicianus (Gra.) Bp. B 2(55. c 47. R GO. 



Carolina Wren. 



69. Thryothorus ludovicianus miamiensis Ridg. B . c . R GO&. 



Floridan Wren. 



70. Thryothorus ludovicianus berlandieri (Couch) Coucs. B 200. c 17 a. R coa. 



Texan Wren. 



71. Thryothorus bewicki (Aud.) Bp. B 267. c 48. R 61. 



Bewick's Wren. 



72. Thryothorus bewicki leucogaster Bd. B . c 48. R 616. 



White-bellied Wren. 



73. Thryothorus bewicki spilurus (Vig.) Bd. B . C48&. R eia. (?) 



Speckled-tailed Wren. 



74. Troglodytes domesticus (Bartr.) Coues. B 270, 272. c 49. R 63. 



House Wren. 



75. Troglodytes domesticus parkmani (Aud.) Coues. B271. C49a. R 63. 



Western House Wren. 



67. C. m. con-sper'-sus. Lat. conspersus, speckled; perfect participle of conspergo, from con 



and s/iarr/o (Gr. tnreipw), I strew, scatter, sprinkle ; whence English sparse, scattered, and 

 many other words, as disperse, aspersion. The Span, canon, brutalized as Eng. canyon, is 

 constantly used in the West for a rocky gorge or mountain-pass. 



68. Thry-6-tho'-rus lu-do-vl-ci-a'-nus. Gr. Qpvov, a reed, rush, and Oovpos, a leaping, spring- 



ing, from (06pu), 0po><ncw, I run or rush through. The penult is marked long, as equiva- 

 lent to Gr. ov. Lat. Ludoviciana, Louisiana, of or relating to Ludovicus, Louis (XIV., 

 of France). The old Territory was vastly more extensive than the present State is. 



69. T. 1. mi-a-ml-en'-sis. Latinized from the name of the Miami river in Florida. 



70. T. 1. ber-lan'-di-er-i. To Dr. Louis Berlandier, a naturalist, sometime resident in Mexico. 



71. T. be'-wick-i. To Thomas Bewick, "the father of wood-engraving." 



72. T. b. leu-co-gas'-ter [lewco-j. Gr. \evit6s, white, and yao-rtp, stomach, belly; whence 



English gastric, gastronomy. 



73. T. b. spfl-u'-rus. Gr. a-iri\os, spotted ; olpa, tail. 



74. Trog-16'-dy-tes [-tace] dom-es'-ti-cus. Gr. rpcay \oSur-rjs, a cave-dweller, from rp(ay\ij, a 



cave (literally, a hole made by gnawing rpuya, I gnaw), and SUTI/S, an inhabitant, 

 from 8wo> or Svta, I go in or under. The TpcayhoSurat or Trorj/odytce were a cave-dwelling 

 people of ^Ethiopia. The name was later applied to a kind of wren. Lat. domesticus, 

 domestic, from domus,a house. The specific name aedon, applied by Vieillot to this 

 bird, is the Gr. a^div, a songster, par excellence the nightingale; from aetSu, I sing. The 

 pronunciation of Troglodytes wavers ; we mark it as commonly heard, and also as seems to 

 be defensible, in Latin, the penult being indubitably short; though to do so violates one 

 of the leading principles of Greek accentuation, that no word with the ultimate long 

 is a proparoxytone. Many persons say Trog'lody"tes, conformably with English Trog'- 

 lodyte /; . The case is precisely parallel with that of Lopho'phanes, q. v., No. 40; and the 

 analogy of Aristo'phanes is not decisive, the Greek being 'Aptaro^dftis or 'Apio-ro^aj/^s, 

 not 'Apiffr6(f)afris. 



75. T. d. park'-man-I. To Dr. George Parkman, of Boston, murdered by Professor John W. 



Webster, in 1849. 



