NAMES OF BMTISII BIRDS. 141 



1 Anuria. (Given before.) Linnet. 



canescens. Hoary. Mealy Linnet. 



Loxia. (Given before.) Crossbill. 



leucoptera. Abvkos white, and wrtfov a wing. White-winged Crossbill. 



Coccyzus. Kokxv^u to cry like a Cucoo. Coccyzet. 



Americanus. American. Virginian Coccyzet. 



Lagopus. (Given before.) Ptarmigan. 



rupestris. Of or belonging to rocks. Rock Ptarmigan. 



Puffinus ? Shearwater. 



fuliginosus. Fuligo, soot. Dusky Shearwater. 



Lestris. (Given before.)' Skua. 



Richardsonii. So named after Mr. Richardson. Richardson's Skua. 



Larus. (Given before.) Gull. 



leucopterus. Awkos white, trreeo* a wing. Iceland Gull. 



Xema ? Xeme. 



Sabini. Named after Mr. Sabine. Sabine's Xeme. 



Anous. [A, without, voir mind. — Ed.] Noddy. 



8tolida. Foolish. Black Noddy. 



Polysticta. UoXvs much, and vrty^x a spot or brand. 

 Stelleri. From a proper name. 



T urdus. Thrush. 



Whitei. Named after Gilbert White, of Selborne, having been 



killed in Hampshire. White's Thrush. 



Plectrophanes. nxwrfov a spur, and tpxiw to show. Longspur. 



Lapponica. fJOf or belonging to Lapland. — Ed.]] Lapland 



Longspur. 



In the derivation of the word schceniculus, perhaps the latter part of the name 

 may come, by a barbarous derivation, from colo to inhabit. The derivation of 

 troglodytes (the name of a people, applied to the Common Wren, from their 

 similar custom of living in holes of the earth) is from r^uyXv a den or cave, and 

 Jtw or Svv« to enter. This was accidentally omitted in the first part of the " Ex- 

 planation." The Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum gives a different derivation 

 from mine for Somateria and Hcematopus ; the former from <tu(ax a body, and 

 T»f*a> to preserve, instead of from s£<o», wool or down ; " utrum horum mavis 

 accipe ;" the latter from xi^x blood, and vcovs, instead of from oms the face. I 

 think this latter is right, but both bill and legs are of the same colour. Bo- 

 taurus it derives from ft»j, noise or clamour, and rxveos a bull, which may, I think, 

 be correct. 



The following derivations, also, not discovered by myself, are extracted from 

 the Ashmolean Catalogue already alluded to (Oxford, 1836), which has been 

 presented to me since the publication of my last paper : — Cygnus, from Kvx»«f ; 



