110 CHECK LIST .OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



682. Porzana jamaicensis coturniculus Bd. B . c 470a. R 576a. 



Farallone Black Crake. 



683. Crex pratensis Bechst. B 558. 0471. R577. (!E.) 



Corn Crake. 



684. Gallinula galeata (Licht.) Bp. B 560. c 472. R 579. 



Florida Gallinule. 



685. lonornis martinica (L.) Reich. B 561. c 473. R 578. 



Purple Gallinule. 



686. Fulica americana Gm. B 559. c 474. R 580. 



American Coot. [See Addenda, No. 885. 



687. Phcenicopterus ruber L. B 502. c 475. R 585. 



Red Flamingo. 



688. Cygnus buccinator Rich. B 562. c 476. R 589. 



Trumpeter Swan. 



689. Cygnus columbianus (Ord) Coues. B 56iws. c 477. R 588. 



American Swan. 



682. P. j. co-tur-ni'-cu-lus. Lat. diminutive of Coturnix, which see, No. 579. 



683. Crex pra-ten'-sis. Gr. Kp<=, Lat. crex, a crake; all three of these words are the same, 



meaning the creaking, crackling cry of the bird ; KP^KKU, I make such a noise. Lat. 

 pratensis, see Grus, No. 670. (A subgenus, " Crescicus," which passed in some American 

 works for the black rail, was simply a misprint for creciscus, which is a Greek diminu- 

 tive form of 



684. Gal-lm'-u-la gal-g-a'-ta. Lat. gallinula, a diminutive of gallina, a hen: see Gallinago, No. 



608. It is commonly but wrongly accented on the penult, and pronounced gally-new'-ler! 

 But gahl-leen'-u-lah is doubtless nearer the sound a Roman would have made if he had 

 used the word. Lat. galeata, hehneted ; galea, a helmet ; galeo, I crown with a helmet ; 

 very apt, in allusion to the frontal shield of a bird of this genus. 



685. I-on-5r'-ms mar-tin'-I-ca. Gr. tov, Itavia, a violet, and opvis, a bird ; well applied to these 



luxurious porphyritic or hyacinthine " sultans." English violet is from Lat. viola, and 

 this is very easily gotten from the Greek. To the island of Martinique. 



686. FuT-I-ca am-gr-i-ca'-na. Lat. fulica, same as fidix, a coot, from the sooty color of the 



bird ; fullijo, soot, whence fuliginosus, &c. 



687. Phoe-ni-cop'-ter-us rub'-Sr. Gr. (f>oiviK6irrepos, Lat. phccmcopterus, the flamingo ; literally, 



red-winged : fyoivit, and irrepov : see Agelceus, No. 316. Lat. ruber, red. English flamingo 

 seems to come directly through the Spanish flamenco, the name of this bird ; both these, 

 as the French fiamant, are of course from the Latin jlamma, flame, fiery-red. 



688. Cyg'-nus buc-cin-a'-tor. Gr. KVKVOS, Lat. cycnus or cygnns, a swan ; famed for its dying 



song ; also name of a person fabled to have been transmuted into the bird. The name 

 is probably rooted in the idea of singing, this being one of the most persistent and 

 ubiquitous myths. Lat. buccinator, a trumpeter, who uses his cheeks so much in blowing 

 his instrument ; buccina, or fivKavti, a trumpet ; bucca, the cheek. 



689. C. cS-lum-bi-a'-nus. Of the Columbia River, where specimens were noted by Lewis and 

 Clarke, afterwards named by Ord. 



This stands in the orig. ed. as C. americanus. For the change, see Coues, Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 2d ser.. No. 6, 1876, p. 444. 



