124 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



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802. Sterna tradeam Aud. B 687. c 571. R 684. (! s. A.) 



Trudeau's Tern. 



803. Sterna aleutica Bd. B . c 572. R 689. 



Aleutian Tern. 



804. Sterna fuliginosa Gm. B 688. c 573. R 691. 



Sooty Tern. 



805. Sterna ansesthetica Scop. B . c 574. R 692. 



Bridled Tern. 



806. Hydrochelidon lariformis (L., 1758) Coues. B 695. c 575. R 693. 



Black Tern. 



807. Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Meisn.) Boie. B . c 575&. R 694. (! E.) 



White-winged Black Tern. 



808. Anous stolidus (L.) Gray. B 696. c 576. R 695. 



Noddy Tern. 



809. Bhynchops nigra L. B 697. c 577. R 656. 



Black Skimmer. 



sion of certain emotions, as, surprise. But when surprised at anything, we question it, 

 or doubt it, and this implies a feeling of superiority in ourselves ; hence haughtiness, 

 loftiness, even disdain and scorn, for the person or object which makes us supercilious. 

 Super is the Gr. virtp. Cilium is the eyelid, before transferred to the eyelashes ; it is the 

 Greek KV\OL, the eyelids. Cilia, in the plural, has latterly been much used in the sciences 

 for any sort of little hairs or fringes, or flagdla ; as, ciliated epithelium, &c. Lat. antil- 

 larum, of the Antilles ; in the genitive plural. 



802. S. tru-deau'-i. To Dr. James Trudeau, of Louisiana. 



Included as North American on the authority of Audubon. 



803. S. a-leu'-ti-ca. To the Aleutian Islands. 



804. S. fu-ll-gin-o'-sa. See Cariace, No. 559. 



805. S. an-aes-the'-ti-ca. Gr. avaiffQ-ei-riK^s, insensible, unfeeling, not perceiving ; hence, as 



applied to this bird, stupid, foolish ; a or av, privative, and a.lcrQ-rjriK.6s, sensible, &c. ; 

 aur077<m, sensation, perception, feeling; ai<T9dvonai, I perceive. We have the English 

 (esthetic direct from the Greek, though this has experienced a refinement of meaning the 

 original did not possess ; also in medicine, anaesthesia, the state of insensibility produced 

 by such drugs as tether or chloroform, called from their property, ancesthetic. The word 

 has been brutally written anosthceta ; ancestheta is one amendment already introduced, and 

 the above is a further improvement. 



806. Hy-dr6-ch6-ll'-d5n Iar-i-f5r'-mis. Gr. iiSwp, water, and x f ^ l ^"> a swallow, i. e., sea- 



swallow. Lat. lariformis, gull-like, shaped like a gull: larus &a& forma. 



807. H. leu-cop'-tg-ra. Gr. A.ev/cJs, white, and irrepov, wing. 



North America in one known instance (Wisconsin); see Brewer, Am. Nat., 1874, 

 p. 188. 



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808. A'-n6-us stfil'-T-dus. Gr. &voos or &vovs, literally mindless, unmindful of ; a privative and 



vous, the mind, intellect, understanding. It is applied to the bird as exactly equivalent 

 to stolidus, or anasthetica, as stolid, apathetic, insensible, in view of its indifference to 

 the presence of man. Lat. stolidus, stolid; related to stultus, foolish, silly. 



809. Rhynch'-ops nig'-ra. Gr. pvyx *, tne beak, and dty, the face ; well applied to a bird whose 



extraordinary beak is such a prominent feature. Lat. niger, feminine nigra, black. 



