26 CHECK LIST OF' NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



23. HarporhynchTis redivivris (Gamb.) Cab. B 256. c is. R 16. 



Californian Thrasher. 



24. Harporhynchus redivivus lecontii (Lawr.) Coues. B 257. c iso. E I6a. 



Yuuiii Thrasher. 



25. Harporhynchus crissalis Henry. B 258. c 14. R 17. 



Crissal Thrasher. 



26. Saxicola oenanthe (L.) Bechst. B 157. c 15. R 21. (!E.) 



Stone Chat ; Wheat-ear. 



27. Sialia sialis (L.) Hald. B 158. c 16. R 22. 



Eastern Blue-bird. 



28. Sialia mexicana Sw. B 159. c 17. R 23. 



Western Blue-bird. 



29. Sialia arctica Sw. B IGO. c is. R 24. 



Arctic Blue-bird. 



30. Cinclns mexicarms Sw. B 164. c 19. R 19. 



Water Ouzel ; Dipper. 



31. Cyanecula suecica (L.) Brm. B . c . R 20. (!A.) 



Blue-throated Redstart. 



23. H. r6-dl-vi'-yus. Lat. redivicus, revived, from re-, red-, redi-, in sense of back again, and 



rims, living. Gambel discovered in this bird a long-lost species of an older author. 



24. H. r. lg-con'-ti-i. To Dr. John L. Le Conte, of Philadelphia, the famous entomologist. 



25. H. cris-sa'-lis. No such Latin word; there is a verb criso or crisso, used of a certain 



motion of the haunches ; crissum is a technical word lately derived therefrom, signifying 

 in ornithology the under tail-coverts, which in this bird are red. Cf. Gr. Kpurads, Ktpo-6s. 



26. Sax-I'-cS-la oe-nan'-the foo-ay-nanthe, as if vvay-nanthe]. Lat. saxicola, a rock-inhab- 



itant; saxum, a rock, and incola (in and colo), an inhabitant. Lat. viliflora, and Gr. 

 olvavOri, signify precisely the same thing: the bird is prettily named "flower of the vine : " 

 Lat. vilis, the vine, ./fora, a flower. The Gr. olvdi/Brj, whence Lat. oenanthe, is an uncertain 

 bird mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny ; the name was definitely applied to this species 

 in 1555. The word primarily relates to the grape, ofi/rj, as if the bird were one which 

 frequented vineyards, or appeared with the flowering (&v6os) of the vine. 



27. ST-al'-l-a sl'-al-Is. Gr. a-ta\is, a bird, in "Ath. 302 F;" from <r(a.\ov, saliva; verb ffiaMfy, 



I slaver, or make some sibilant noise. To call this Anacreon a slobberer ! 



28. S. mex-T-ca'-na. Latinized from Mexican. The country is called Mexico, Mejico, or 



Mehico, from Mexiili, the Aztec god of war. 



29. S. arc'-tl-c5. Lat. arctica, northern, arctic ; i. e., Gr. &PKTOS, a bear, apKTit(6s, near the bear. 



30. Cin'-clus mex-T-ca'-nus. Gr. K iyit\os, Lat. Cinclns, the name of a bird, by some supposed 



to be the European Cindus aquaticus, by others a kind of Sandpiper ; Kiyk\ifa is to 

 wag the tail. Lat. mexicanus, see No. 28. 



31. C^-an-g'-cQ-la sue'-cl-ca. Cyanecula is a diminutive substantive lately (perhaps not before 



Brisson, 1760) formed from the Lat. adjective cyaneus, Gr. Kvdixos or Kvavfc, blue; mean- 

 ing, as we might say, "bluet." Ritbecula is a word similarly coined. Lat. suecica or 

 soecica, Swedish ; Sweden having been called Suecia or Svecia. In that country the bird 

 is said to be called " Charles's-bird," Carls-fogel, whence Avis Carolina of some of the 

 treatises written in Latin. "Redstart" is a corruption of SRotfjfterj, meaning " redtail," 

 and Rnticilla and Phanicurus are among the translated book-names of the species. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. See Ibis, 1878, p. 422. Alaska. 



