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147. Myiodioctes pusillus (Wils.) Bp. b 213. c 102. r 125. 



Green Black-capped Flycatehing Warbler. 



148. Myiodioctes pusillus pileolatus (Pall.) Ridg. b — . c 1020. R i25a. 



Pacific Black-capped Flycatehing Warbler. 



149. Myiodioctes canadensis (L.) Aud. b 214, 215. c 103. r 127. 



Canadian Flycatehing Warbler. 



150. Cardellina rubrifrons (Gir.) Sel. b — . c — . R 131. 



Red-fronted Flycatehing Warbler. 



151. Setophaga picta Sw. B218. c 105. R 129. 



Painted Flycatehing Warbler. 



152. Setophaga ruticilla (L.) Sw. b 217. c 104. r 128. 



American Redstart. 



153. Certhiola bahamensis Reich. B 301. c 106. r 159. (!W. i.) 



Bahaniau Honey Creeper. 



147. JM. pu-sn'-lus. See Sitla, No. 60. 



148. M. p. pi-l6-6-la'-tus. LiSLt. p ileum or pUeolum, Gr. TrrAos, a kind of cap, a skull-cap; pileo- 



latus, capped. In late days, pileum has become a technical word in ornithology, meaning 

 the top of the head. 



149. M. can-a-den'-sis. Latinized from Canada, with the termination -e«sis. Canada is said to 



be the Iroquois word Kanuta, a village or collection of huts. 



150. Car-del-li'-na rub-ri'-frons. Apparently an arbitrary variation from Lat. carduelis, a 



kind of finch, from carduus, a thistle. — Lat. ruber, red, and /;ons, the forehead. The pro- 

 nunciation of rubrifrons is in question; everybody says roo'bnjifrdnz ; as it is not a classic 

 word, we can only mark it by analogy with such words as rubrico, &c. But see above, 

 Dendrceca, No. 126, in favor of rub'nfrons, as the i here comes before y and a liquid. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the List ; since discovered by H. W. Hcnsliaw in New Mexico. 



151. Se-t6'-pha-ga pic'-ta. Gr. o-Vjy, genitive a-rjTSs, an insect; and <payf7v, to eat. The con- 



necting vowel need not lengthen before pA, as this is only equivalent in force to/! — 

 Lat. pictus, painted, pictured, here in the sense of brightly or highly colored ; pinijo, I 

 paint, depict. 



1 52. S. rut-I-cIlMa. Lat. rutilus, reddish ; for the rest see Motacilla, N0.86. The word is exactly 



equal to redstart, which is Anglicized from the Germ. SJctliftcrt or 9?ott»|lerj, all three words 

 meaning simply redtail. 



153. Cer-thi'-6-la ba-ha-men'-sls. Certhiola is a coined diminutive of Certhia, which see, 



No. 02 ; we usually hear it accented on a long penult, which is certainly vicious. — Baha- 

 mensis is Latinized from Bahama. 



In the first ed. of the Check List, this species stands as Cflavcoh, corrected in the 

 Appendix. If we were to use the latter, it would ' be y?a«u/a, noXflaceola. Certhiola is 

 correctly formed as a diminutive from Certhia, like lineola from linra ; for the general rule, 

 however, in cases when the stem ends in a consonant, we may recall the exquisite lines 

 attributed to the death-bed of Hadrian : — 



Animula vagula blandula, 



Hospes comesque corporis, 



QuaB nunc abibis in loca, 



Fallidula rigida nudula. 



Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos ? 



