26 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



23. Harporhynchus redivivus (Gamb.) Cab. b 256. c 13. r 16. 



Californian Thrasher. 



24. Harporhynchus redivivus lecontii (Lawr.) Coues, b 257. c iza. r i6a. 



Yuma Thrasher. 



25. Harporhynchus crissalis Henry, b 258. c 14. R 17. 



Crissal Thrasher. 



26. Saxicola cenanthe (L.) Bechst. b 157. c 15. r 21. (!E.) 



Stoue Chat ; Wheat-ear. 



27. Sialia sialis (L.) Hald. b 158. c 16. R 22. 



Eastern Blue-bird. 



28. Sialia mexicana Sw. b 159. c 17. R 23. 



Western Blue-bird. 



29. Sialia arctica Sw. b igo. c is. r 24. 



Arctic Blue-bird. 



30. Cinclus mexicanus Sw. b 164. c 19. r 19. 



Water Ouzel ; Dipper. 



31. Cyanecula suecica (L.) Brm. b — . c — . R 20. (!A.) 



Blue-throated Redstart. 



23. H. rg-di-vi'-vus. Lat. redivivus, revived, from re-, red-, redi-, in sense of back again, and 



virus, living. Gambel discovered in tliis bird a long-lost species of an older autlior. 



24. H. r. Ie-c6n'-ti-l. To Dr. John L. Le Conte, of riiiladclphia, the famous entomologist. 



25. H. cris-sa'-lis. No such Latin word; there is a verb criso or crisso, used of a certain 



motion of the haunches ; crissum is a teclmical word lately derived therefrom, signifying 

 in ornithology the under tail-coverts, which in tliis bird are red. Cf. Gr. KpiaaSs, KipaSs. 



26. Sax-i'-c6-la oe-nan'-the [oo-ay-nanthe, as if way-nanthe]. Lat. saxicola, a rock-inhab- 



itant; saxum, a rock, and incola {in and co/o), an inhabitant. — Lat. vitijlora, and Gr. 

 olvavdt), signify precisely the same thing: the bird is prettily named "flower of the vine : " 

 Lat. viiis, the vine, ,/?ora, a flower. The Gr. olvavdi), whence Lat. ccnantJte, is an uncertain 

 bird mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny ; the name was definitely applied to this species 

 in 1555. The word primarily relates to the grape, olvri, as if the bird were one which 

 frequented vineyards, or appeared with the flowering ('avdos) of the vine. 



27. S!-al'-I-a si'-al-is. Gr. a-taXls, a bird, in "Ath. 302 F ; " from alaXou, saliva ; verb (xiaAlCw, 



I slaver, or make some sibilant noiae. To call this Anacreon a slobberer! 



28. S. mex-i-ca'-na. Latinized from Mexican. The country is called Mexico, Mejico, or 



Mehico, from MexitU, the Aztec god of war. 



29. S. arc'-ti-ca. Lat. arctica, northern, arctic ; i. e., Gr. ^p/cros, a bear, apKriK6s, near the bear. 



30. Cin'-clus mex-!-ca'-nus. Gr. k'ijkXos, Lat. Cinclus, the name of a bird, by some supposed 



to be the European Cinclus aquaticus, by others a kind of Sandpiper ; KiynXlCo} is to 

 wag the tail. — Lat. mexicanus, see No. 28. 



31. Cy-an-6'-cu-Ia sue'-c!-ca. Cijaneada is a diminutive siibstantive lately (perhaps not before 



Brisson, 1760) formed from the Lat. adjective cyaneus, Gr. Kviivios or kvwSs, blue; mean- 

 ing, as we might say, "bluet." Ruhecula is a word similarly coined. —Lat. suecica or 

 svecica, Swedish ; Sweden having been called Suecia or Svecia. In that country the bird 

 is said to be called " Charles's-bird," Carls-fogel, whence Avis Carolina of some of the 

 treatises written in Latin. —"Redstart " is a corruption of SKotftRcrj, meaning " redtail," 

 and Ruiicilla and Phurnicnrus are among the translated book-names of the species. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. See Ibis, 1878, p. 422. Alaska. 



