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67. Catherpes mesicanus conspersus Ridg. b — . c 46. r 59a. 



Speckled Canon Wren. 



,68. Thryothorus Indovicianus (Gm.) Bp. b 265. c 47. R go. 



Carolina Wren. 



69. Thryothorus ludovicianus miamiensis Ridg. b — . c — . r 606. 



Floridan Wren. 



70. Thryothorus ludovicianus berlandieri (Couch) Coues. b 266. c 47a. R 60a. 



Texan Wren, 



71. Thryothorus bewicki (Aud.) Bp. b 267. c 48. R 6i. 



Be^vick's Wren. 



.72. Thryothorus bewicki leucogaster Bd. b — . c 48a. R 6i6. 



White-bellied Wren. 



,73. Thryothorus bewicki spilurus (Vig.) Bd. B — . c 486. r 6ia. (?) 



Speckled-tailed Wren. 



74. Troglodytes domesticus (Bartr.) Coues. B 270, 272. c 49. R 63. 



House Wren. 



75. Troglodytes domesticus parkmani (Aud.) Coues. B271. C49a. R 63a. 



Western House Wren. 



67. C. m. con-sper'-sus. Lat. conspersus, speckled; perfect participle of consperrjo, from con 



and spargo (Gr. cnTeipai), I strew, scatter, sprinkle ; whence English sparse, scattered, and 

 many other words, as disperse, aspersion. — The Span. caTion, brutalized as Eng. canyon, is 

 constantly used in the West for a rocky gorge or mountain-pass. 



68. Thry-6-th6'-rus lu-do-vi-cl-a'-nus. Gr. dpvov, a reed, rush, and Oovpos, a leaping, spring- 



ing, from {B6p(a), dpacKw, I run or rush through. The penult is marked long, as equiva- 

 lent to Gr. ov. — Lat. Ludoviciana, Louisiana, of or relating to Ludouicus, Louis (XIV., 

 of France). The old Territory was vastly more extensive than the present State is. 



69. T. 1. mi-a-mi-en'-sis. Latinized from the name of the Miami river in Florida. 



70. T. I. ber-lan'-di-6r-i. To Dr. Louis Berlandier, a naturalist, sometime resident in Mexico. 



71. T. be'-wick-L To Thomas Bewick, " the father of wood-engraving." 



72. T. b. Ieu-c6-gas'-ter [lewco-J. Gr. \evK6s, white, and yaa-r-lip, stomach, belly; whence 



English gastric, gastronomy. 



73. T. b. spil-u'-rus. Gr. (nriXos, spotted ; ovpa, tail. 



74. Trog-16'-dy-tes [-tace] dom-es'-ti-cus. Gr. rpay\o5uT7is, a cave-dweller, from Tpciy\ri, a 



cave (literally, a hole made by gnawing — rpdi-yw, I gnaw), and Syrrjs, an inhabitant, 

 from ^vva> or Suoi, I go in or under. The TpuiyXu^vTai or TrogJodijtm were a cave-dwelling 

 people of iEtliiopia. The name was later applied to a kind of wren. — Lat. domesticus, 

 domestic, from domus, a house. — The specific name aedon, applied by Vieillot to this 

 bird, is the Gr. ariScov, a songster, par excellence the nightingale ; from aeiSw, I sing. — The 

 pronunciation of Troglodytes wavers ; we mark it as commonly heard, and also as seems to 

 be defensible, in Latin, the penidt being indubitably short ; though to do so violates one 

 of the leading principles of Greek accentuation, that no word with the ultimate long 

 is a proparoxytone. Many persons say Trog'lodf/"tes, conformably with English Trog'- 

 lodyte". The case is precisely parallel with that of Lopho'phanes, q. v.. No. 40; and the 

 analogy of Aristo'phanes is not decisive, the Greek being 'Apta-TdpavTis or 'ApicrTo<pavr]s, 

 not 'AptarScpavris. 



75. T. d. park'-man-i. To Dr. George Parkman, of Boston, murdered by Professor John W. 



Webster, in 1849. 



