64 CHECK LIST OF NOETH AMERICAN BIEDS. 



327. Icterus bullocki (Sw.) Bp. B 416. c 217. R 272. 



Bullock's Oriole. 



328. Icterus cucullatus Sw. B 413. c 218. R 269. 



Hooded Oriole. 



329. Icterus parisiorum Bp. B 411. c 210. R 268. 



Scott's Oriole. 



330. Icterus melanocephalus auduboni (Gir.) Coues. B 409. c 220. R 266. 



Audubon's Black-headed Oriole. 



331. Scolecophagus ferrugineus (Gm.) Sw. B 417. c 221. R 273. 



Rusty Grackle. 



332. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Wagl.) Cab. B 418. c 222. R 274. 



Blue-headed Grackle. 



333. Quiscalus macrurus Sw. B 419. c 223. R 275. 



Great-tailed Crow Blackbird. 



327. I. bfil'-lSck-I. To William Bullock, sometime a collector in Mexico, and proprietor of a 



famous museum in London. 



328. I. cu-cul-la'-tiis. Lat. cucullatus, hooded ; cuculla, a kind of hood or cowl fastened to a gar- 



ment, to be drawn over the head. 



329. I. par-is-I-5'-rui,i. Lat. Parisiorum, of the Parisians. The Parisii were a people of Gaul, 



settled on the river Senones, now the Seine ; their chief city, Lutetia, called also Lutetia 

 Parisiorum and Parisii, is now Paris. There is no applicability of the name to the bird : 

 Bonaparte probably so called it from national vanity, or because he found a specimen 

 in a museum in Paris. The name is commonly but wrongly written parisorum. 



330. I. mel-an-6-cgph'-al-us aud'-u-b6n-i. Gr. /ue'Aas, feminine //eAaipa, black ; and Ke<j>a\ri, 



head. To J. J. Audubon. 



331. Sco-le-co'-pha-gus fer-ru-gln'-e'-us. Gr. aKcaK^Ko^ayos, a worm-eater; tr/ccoATjf, genitive 



ffKw\i)Kos, a worm, and Qdyw, I eat. It is also a Latin word, scolex, worm. ~Lat.ferrugi- 

 nens, rusty-red, color of iron-rust; from ferrugo, iron-rust; ferrum, iron. The curious Eng- 

 lish word^rradHe or grakle is anglicized from Lat. graculus or gracculus, a very uncertain 

 bird, by some supposed to be the jackdaw, by others the cormorant or sea-crow ; and 

 the Latin word itself is supposed to be merely in imitation of a hoarse croak, gra, gra. 

 See what is said under Querquedula, No. 714. 



332. S. cy-an-6-cgph'-al-us. Gr. Kvavos, or Lat. cyaneus, blue; and KetpaXri, head. 



333. Quis'-ca-lus mac-ru'-rus. Unde derii-atur quiscalus 1 We have no proof whence it comes 



or what it means: it varies in form, as quiscala, quiscula. Mr. W. C. Avery asks: "Is 

 quiscalus an onomatopceon ? I can find no Latin or Greek word like it." Mr. H. T. 

 Wharton observes : " Quiscafus seems a native name ; if it is, the termination -us only 

 obscures its origin without Latinizing it." Professor A. Newton remarks at greater 

 length : " Quiscalus was doubtless taken by Vieillot from the Gracula quiscula of Linnsus 

 (S. N., ed. 10, p. 109). I cannot find this word or any thing like it in any older author; 

 but I have an instinctive conviction that it must occur somewhere ; for, as far as my 

 studies of Linnaeus's work go, they show me that he did not invent names. From his 

 printing the word in both eds. (10th and 12th) with a capital initial letter, it is obvious 

 that he regarded it as a substantive, and I should think he must have found it in some 

 book of travels as the local name of a bird. The word seems to me Spanish or quasi- 

 Spanish say Creole and the regular Castilian quisquilla, which dictionaries explain 

 to be a trifling dispute, suggests a meaning, especially when one reads of the noisy and 

 fussy bickerings of your Boat-tails." If, as seems highly probable, we are here on the 



