40 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



141. Geothlypis trichas (L.) Cab. B 170. c 97. R 122. 



Maryland Yellow-throat. 



142. Geothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.) Bd. B 172. c 98. R 120. 



Mourning Warbler. 



143. Geothlypis macgillivrayi (And.) Bd. B 173. c 99. R 121. 



Maegillivray's Warbler. 



144. Icteria virens (L.) Bd. B 176. c 100. R 123. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 



145. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.) Coues. B 177. c iooa. R i23. 



Long-tailed Chat. 



146. Myiodioctes mitratus (Gm.) Aud. B 211. c 101. R 124. 



Hooded Flycatching Warbler. 



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141. Gg-oth'-ly-pTs trlch'-as. Gr. yrj or yea, the earth, and \VTTIS, " a proper name." Gr. Opi, 



genitive rpix^s, hair; there is also the actual word -rpix<is, for some kind of a thrush, 

 occurring in Aristotle. Some take the rpix<is of Aristotle to be the bird named by 

 Linnaeus Turdus pilaris, i.e., the hairy thrush; but Sundevall reasonably identifies it 

 with T. musicus. Of course it had originally nothing to do with the present species, to 

 which Linnaeus applied the term trichas in 1706. Cabanis coined Geothlypis in 1847, 

 simply explaining @\viris as a "proper name." The meaning of the term is obscure, 

 but we think it may be explained, considering that 0\vTtis is the same as Bpaviris, which 

 latter occurs in Aristotle as the name of some conirostral granivorous bird never satis- 

 factorily identified. Sundevall says Bpaviris ,,txiiirbe in cinitjcn codices Q\VTT'LS (Thlypis) 

 <jefd)vteben" ; and the identity of the two words appears to be established, seeing that 

 6\dca, I break, bruise, crush, whence 6\aviris, has the same meaning as Opavca, whence 

 6pavtris. (See Aristoph., Av. 406.) In each case the name is that of a bird considered 

 as granivorous as a seed-eater, i. e., seed-breaker, famcitfrcffcnbcr, coccolhraustes, (nropo- 

 6Aa(TTT)s. /C.T.A. But the name, though thus perfectly explicable, is very badly chosen 

 to designate a strictly insectivorous species, its only pertinence being in yco-, signifying 

 the humility of this bird of brake and briar. 



142. G. pM-a-del'-phl-a. Named for the " city of brotherly love." Gr. 4>i\e'co, I love, dSeA^cfs, 



brother ; the latter from d connective (for a/*) and Se\<f>vs, the womb, that is, having 

 one mother. But the compound itself, Philadelphia, is classic, as the name of a city, and 

 there are the actual words <pi\a8(\<pfta, <f>t\a8f\(p'ta, amor fraternus, charitas fraterna. The 

 Lat. is marked for quantity as above in the authority consulted; but some contend for 

 the Greek accent, philadelphl'-a. 



143. G. mac-gil-llv-ray'-i. To William Macgillivray, Esq., of Edinburgh, author of much of 



Audubon's scientific work, besides several other important treatises. 



144. Ic-tgr'-I-a vlr'-ens. A dialectic form, invented by Vieillot, of Gr. fartpos or Lat. icterus; 



primarily, the disease jaundice ; also a certain yellow bird, probably the golden oriole of 

 Europe, by the sight of which jaundiced patients were fancied to be cured. The name 

 was in 1760 by Brisson applied to the American orioles as a generic term, Icterus ; and 

 by Vieillot later, in the form Icteria, to the present genus. Lat. virens, present parti- 

 ciple of cireo, I grow green. 



145. I. v. lon-gl-caud'-a [-cowda]. Lat. lonrjus, long, and cauda, tail. 



146. Myi-6-dI-6c'-tes mi-tra'-tias. Gr. /uuTa, a fly, and 5<c/crr;s, a pursuer. Lat. mitratus, 



wearing a turban ; Gr. jin-pa, a turban or other head-dress, cf. (tirSca, I weave. The 

 word is sometimes six-syllabled, but properly reducible to five, the yt, from Gr. v?, being 

 slurred ; the sound is that of mivee-, not ml- or me-. 



