52 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



225. Passerculus princeps Mayn. B . c us. R 192. 



Ipswich Savanna Sparrow. 



226. Passerculus sandvicensis (Gm.) Bd. B 333. c 1596. R 193. 



Sandwich Savanna Sparrow. 



227. Passerculus sandvicensis savana (Wils.) Ridg. B332. c 159. R i93a. 



Common Savanna Sparrow. 



228. Passerculus sandvicensis anthinus (Bp.) Coues. B334. c I59a. R 194. 



Pipit Savanna Sparrow. 



229. Passerculus sandvicensis alaudinus (Bp.) Ridg. B 335. c . R 1936. 



Lark Savanna Sparrow. 



230. Passerculus rostratus (Cass.) Bd. B 336. c IGO. R 196. 



Beaked Savanna Sparrow. 



231. Passerculus guttatus Lawr. B . c i60a. R 195. 



St. Lucas Savanna Sparrow. 



232. Pocecetes gramineus (Gm.) Bd. B 337. c iei. R 197. 



Bay-winged Bunting; Grass Finch. 



233. Pocecetes gramineus confinis Bd. B . c i6ia. R 197. 



Western Grass Finch. 



234. Coturniculus passerinus (Wils.) Bp. B 338. c 162. R 198. 



Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



225. P. prin'-ceps. Lat. princeps, first, principal ; from primus, first, and -ceps. 



226. P. sand-vi-cen'-sis. Named after Sandwich Island, one of the Kurile or Aleutian Archi- 



pelago. 



227. P. s. sa-va'-na. Properly Span, sabana or sarana, anglicized savanna or savannah, a 



meadow. As a quasi-Latin word, it should have but one n, as in the Spanish. The 

 quantity of the penult is marked by the general rule for accentuation in Spanish, that 

 words ending in a vowel have the accent on the penult. 



228. P. s. an-thi'-nus. Arbitrarily formed from anthus, a pipit, which see, No. 89. 



229. P. s. al-aud-i'-nus. Arbitrarily formed from Lat. alauda, a lark ; this from the Celtic al, 



high, and and, song. 



Not in the orig. ed., as then not recognized as valid. 



230. P. ros-tra'-tiis. Lat. rostratus, beaked, i. e., having a large beak ; rostrum, a beak ; this from 



rodo, to gnaw, corrode, &c. 



231. P. gut-ta'-tus. Lat. guttatus, spotted, speckled; from gutta, a drop; as if marked with 



droppings. 



232. P6-oe'-c6-tes gra-min'-e'-us. Gr. ir6a, irota, ir6rj, iroirj, grass, herbage ; and oi/ee-njs, an 



inhabitant ; from of/cos, a dwelling. The orthography of this word has been unsettled : 

 it was first written Pooccetes by Baird in 1858, and has since been variously spelled. 

 The stem of the first word is iro, giving po-; and o'lKfrrjs becomes in Latin cecetes ; the 

 above form seems eligible, as first emended by Sclater in 1859. It may be susceptible, 

 but not preferably, of further contraction into Pacetes. Lat. gramineus, grassy, figura- 

 tively applied to a bird that lives much in the grass ; gramen, grass. 



233. P. g. c5n-fl'-nls. Lat. confinis, like affinis, allied to, &c. ; con, with, and finis, the boundary, 



limit, edge, or end of a thing. 



234. Co-tur-nl'-cu-lus pas-sgr-I'-nus. Arbitrary diminutive of coturnix, a quail ; said to be 



so called from the resemblance of the sound of its voice to the sound of the word. 

 Passerinus, an arbitrary adjective from passer, a sparrow ; sparrowlike. 



