40 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



141. G-eothlypis trichas (L.) Cab. b 170. c 97. R 122. 



/^ Maryland Yellow-tliroat. 



y 142. Geothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.) Bd. B 172. c 98. R 120. 



^ Mourning Warbler. 



143. Geothlypis macgillivrayi (And.) Bd. b 173. c 99. R 121. 



Macgillivray's Warbler. 



144. Icteria virens (L.) Bd. b i76. c 100. r 123. 



y^ Yellow-breasted Chat. 



. 145. Icteria virens longicanda (Lawr.) Coues. b 177. c looa. R i23a. 



^ Long-tailed Chat. 



146. Myiodioctes mitratns (Gm.) Aud. b 211. c 101. R 124. 



Hooded Flycatching Warbler. 



141 . G6-6th'-]y-pis tnch'-as. Gr. 777 or y4a, the earth, and @\vkIs, " a proper name." — Gr. 0pi|, 



genitive Tpix<^s, hair ; there is also the actual word rpix^s, ior some kind of a thrusli, 

 " occurring in Aristotle. Some take the rpixdi of Aristotle to be the bird named by 



Linnaeus Turdus pilaris, i.e., the hairy tlirush; but Sundevall reasonably identifies it 

 with T. mtisicus. Of course it had originally nothing to do with the present species, to 

 which Linnaeus applied the term trichas in 17G6. — Cabanis coined Ge.othhjpis in 1847, 

 simply explaining QXviris as a "proper name." The meaning of the term is obscure, 

 but we think it may be explained, considering that OKviris is the same as Bpaviris, which 

 latter occurs in Aristotle as the name of some conirostral granivorous bird never satis- 

 factorily identified. Sundevall says dpaviris „tt)ihbc in cinigcn codices e\vnis (Thlypis) 

 gcfd)vicbcn" ; and the identity of the two words appears to be established, seeing that 

 e\doD, I break, bruise, crush, whence exavnls, has the same meaning as epavu, whence 

 epaviris. (See Aristoph., Av. 466.) In each case the name is that of a bird considered 

 as granivorous — as a seed-eater, i. e., seed-breaker, famcnfreffcnber, coccothraitstes, a-iropo- 

 exiffT-ns, re.T.A. But the name, though thus perfectly explicable, is very badly chosen 

 to designate a strictly insectivorous species, its only pertinence being in gco-, signifying 

 the humility of this bird of brake and briar. 



142. G. phil-a-del'-phi-a. Named for the " city of brotherly love." Gr. (piXew, I love, d5eA(^dy, 



brother ; the latter from d connective (for aixa) and ^(Xcpvs, the M'omb, that is, having 

 one mother. But the compound itself, Philadel'plaa, is classic, as the name of a city, and 

 there are the actual words (piXaSeXcpeta, (piXa.SfX<pia, amor fralernus, cJiaritas f rater na. The 

 Lat. is marked for quantity as above in the authority consulted; but some contend for 

 the Greek accent, philadelphV-a. 



143. G. mac-gll-liv-ray'-i. To William Macgillivray, Esq., of Edinburgh, author of much of 



Audubon's scientific work, besides several other important treatises. 



144. Ic-t6r'-i-a vTr'-ens. A dialectic form, invented by Vieillot, of Gr. tKrepos or Lat. icterus; 



primarily, the disease jaundice ; also a certain yellow bird, probably the golden oriole of 

 Europe, by the sight of which jaundiced patients were fancied to be cured. The name 

 was in 1760 by Brisson applied to the American orioles as a generic term, Icterus ; and 

 by Vieillot later, in the form Icteria, to the present genus. — Lat. virens, present parti- 

 ciple of vireo, I grow green. 



145. I. V. lon-gl-caQd'-a [-cowda]. Lat. lonrjus, long, and cauda, tail. 



Jgjt^yma :i~ 146. Myi-6-d!-oc'-tes mi-tra'-tiis. Gr. fuma, a fly, and StdS/crrjj, a pursuer. — Lat. mitratus, 

 / wearing a turban ; Gr. ^niVpa, a turban or other head-dress, cf. /iirSw, I weave. The 



word is sometimes six-syllabled, but properly reducible to five, the ft, from Gr. v7, being 

 slurred ; the sound is that of micee-, not mi- or me-. 



