'60 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



59. Sitta canadensis L. B 279. c. 39. R 52. 



Ked-bellied Nut-hatch. 



60. Sitta pusilla Lath. B 280. c. 40. R 53. 



Brown-headed Nut-hatch. 



61. Sitta pygmaea Vig. B 281. C4i. R 54. 



Pygmy Nut-hatch. 



62. Certhia familiaris L. B 275. c 42. R 55. 



Brown Creeper. 



63. Campy lorhynchus brunneicapillus (Lafr.) Gr. B 262. c 43. R 56. 



Brown-headed Cactus Wren. 



64. Campylorhynchus affinis Bd. B . c 44. R 57. 



St. Lucas Cactus Wren. 



65. Salpinctes obsoletus (Say) Cab. B 264. c 45. R 58. 



Rock Wren. 



66. Catherpes mexicanns (Sw.) Bd. B 263. c . R 59. (IM) 



Canon Wren. 



59. S. ca-nad-en'-sis. Latinized from Canadian. Nut-hatch is nut-hatcher or nut-hacker (Fr. 



/tac/ter, Swed. hacka), the bird that hacks, pecks, nuts; also called nut-jobber, to job 

 being to peck, or thrust at. 



60. S. pu-sil'-la [puceellah, not pewzillerj. Lat. pusittus, petty, puerile ; directly formed from 



puer, pusus, or pusio (Gr. irais), a boy; here and commonly used simply as signifying 

 small. The Sanskrit root reappears in endless forms of kindred meaning. 



61. S. pyg-mae'-a. Gr. iruyn-h, the fist; hence irvy^atos, Lat. pyijmams, a pygmy, fistling, or 



torn-thumb. As a measure of length, from elbow to clenched n'st, a irvy/j.T) was about 

 13 inches ; the original Pygmies were a race of African dwarfs at war with the Cranes ; 

 pyymueus came afterward to mean any thing pygmy, dwarfed, and is here applied to a 

 very small nut-hatch. Compare Machetes pugnax, No. 639. 



62. Cer'-thi-a fam-fl-i-a'-rls. Gr. KepOios, Lat. certhius, become later certhia. The name 



occurs in Aristotle, who apparently uses it for this very species, which he also calls 

 K vnro\6yos, mipologus ; that is to say, a gatherer of insects ; itvfy, a bug, and \iyu, I col- 

 lect. Lat. familiaris, familiar, domestic, hence common ; J'amiUa, or older familias, the 

 family, the household. 



63. Cam-py-16-rhyn'-chus brun-nei-cap-Il'-lus [broonaycapeellus]. Gr. /ca^Aos, bent, from 



KC^TTW, I bend ; and ptyxos (rhynchus), beak. Lat. bninneus, brown ; capitlus, hair. The 

 adjective brunneus is post-classic, Latinized from It. bruno, Fr. brun, Germ, braun; A. S. 

 bi/rnan, to burn ; related are brand, brunt, and many similar worfls, among them brant ; see 

 Berni'cla, No. 700. 



64. C. af-fm'-is [affeen'is]. Lat. affinis, i. e., ad and finis, at the end of, hence bordering on, 



neighboring ; here in the sense of related to, resembling, having affinity with, No. 63. 



65. Sal-pinc'-tes ob-sS-le'-tus. Gr. ffa \^yx-r-f,s, a trumpeter, becoming in Latin salpinctes, from 



<nfAiiry|(salpigx = salpinx), a trumpet; in allusion to the bird's loud, ringing song. 

 Lat. obsolctvs, unaccustomed, from ob, against, and noleo, I am wont ; hence obsolete, in 

 sense of effaced, all the colors of the bird being dull. Wren is A. S. ivrenna. 



66. Cath-er'-pes mex-T-ca'-nus. Gr. KaSep^s, a creeper; KaOepiru, I creep down, from Kara, 



down, and epirw, I creep, crawl. The stem of the word is seen in herpes, the disease 

 which creeps over the skin ; herpetology, the science of creeping things, reptiles ; repto or 

 repo, I creep, in Latin, simply altered from epiria. Lat. mexicanus, see No. 28. 



