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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 75 



419. Amazilia fiiscocaudata (Fras.) Elliot. B. — . c — . r 345. 



Dusky-tailed Humming-bird. 



420. Amazilia cerviniventris Gld. b — . c — . r 34G. 



Buflf-bellied Humming-bird. 



421. lache latirostris (Sw.) Elliot, b — . c — . R 348. 



Circe Humming-bird. 



422. Trogon ambiguus Gld. b 65. c 284. R 384. (!m) 



Copper-tailed Trogon. 



,/'423. Ceryle alcyon (L.) Boie. b 117. c 28G. R 382. 



Belted Kingfisher. 



424. Ceryle americana cabanisi (Reich.) Coues. b lis. c 287. R 383. 



Texas Kin§:flsher. 



425. Crotophaga ani L. b 66, 67. c 288. R 389. 



Black Ani. 



419. Am-a-zTl'-i-a fus-c6-caud-a'-ta. The word a7)iac!?za is apparently Latinized from Lesson's 



word amazili, used in the plural form amazilis for a group of hununers. We do not know 

 what it means. — 'La.t./uscits, dark, and cauduta, tailed ; cauda, tail. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by J. C. Merrill. This has been 

 called Pyrrhophcena riefferi in papers relating to the Texas specimens. See Merrill, Bull. 

 Nutt. Club, i, 1876, p. 88, and Kidg., Pr. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, p. 147. 



420. A. cer-vi-nl-ven'-tris. Lat. ce?-f('nMS, relating to a deer, ceivus ; and !;en/?7s, pertaining to 



the belly, venter. The allusion is to theyaira-colored under parts. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by J. C. Merrill. See Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, ii, 1877, p. 20, and Pr. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, p. 148. 



421. I'-a-che la-ti-ros'-tris. Gr. «axii, a battle-cry; also a proper name, whence derived. — Lat. 



latirostris, broad-billed ; latits, wide, like Gr. irKaTvs, of same meaning; and rostrum, beak. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List ; since discovered in Arizona by H. W. 

 Henshaw. See Amer. Sportsm., Feb. 20, 1875. 



422. Tro'-g5n am-bi'-gii-us. Gr. rpdyuy, a gnawer, rodent, from rpdyw, I gnaw, cat away, 



corrode ; from the stout, dentate bill ; see Tror/lodytes, No. 74. The word was applied by 

 Moehring in 1752 to the Brazilian Trogon, called curucui hy the natives, and made generic 

 by Brisson in 1760. — Lat. ambiguus, ambiguous, equivocal, of more than one meaning, 

 in a double sense; hence, doubtful, uncertain; from ambo, both, on two sides, and ago, 

 to act or do. Ambiguity is literally a double-dealing, " with double sense deluding; " 

 compare Fr. double entendre, and such homely expressions as " back and fill," " blow hot 

 and cold," "on the fence," "hedge" (to bet on both sides). It was badly applied to this 

 fine species when considered doubtfully distinct from T. mexicanus. 



This stands as T. mexicanus in the orig. ed. For its actual occurrence in Texas, see 

 Pr. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, p. 118. 



423. Ce'-ry-le al'-cy-on. Gr. K-fipvKos, a kingfisher. — Gr. aKKviiu, Lat. halcj/on or alcyon, a 



kingfisher. 'A\Kv6vn or Alcyone was a mythical character, daugliter of ^Eolus, fabled to 

 have been transformed into a kingfisher when, out of love for her shipwrecked husband 

 Ceyx, she threw herself into the sea. The kingfisher was also believed to nest on the 

 water, at a time the waves were stilled ; hence the term " halcyon days." 



424. C. am-er-i-ca'-na cab-an'-is-i. To Dr. Jean Cabanis, long time one of the leaders of 



German ornithology, and editor of the Journal fiir Ornithologie. 



425. Cr6-to'-pha-ga a'-ni. Gr. KpoT<iv, a bug, tick, plant-louse ; and ipayos, from (pa.yofj.ai, I eat. 



