CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 89 



•524. Buteo pennsylvanicus (Wils.) Bp. b 27. c 355. r 443. 



Broad-winged Buzzard Hawk. [See Addenda, Nos. 882, 883. 



525. Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Gm.) Riclg. B30, 31. C356. R447. 



American Rough-legged Buzzard. 



526. Archibuteo ferrugineus (Lieht.) Gr. b 32. c 357. R 448. 



Ferrugineous Kougli-legged Buzzard. 



527. Astnrina plagata Schl. b 33. c 358, r 445. 



Gray Hawlc. 



528. Urnbitinga anthracina (Licht.) Lafr. b — . c — . R 444. 



Antltracite Ha^vlc. 



529. Onychotes gruberi Ridg. b — . c 359. R 446. 



Gruber's Hawk. 



530. Pandion haliaetus (L.) Sav. b 44. c 360. R 425. 



Fish Ha^vk ; Osprey. 



531. Thrasyaetus harpyia (L.) Gr. b — . c — . R 450. (! m.) 



Harpy Eagle. 



524. B. penn-syl-van'-I-cus. See Denclrceca, No. 124. 



525. Arch-I-bu'-tg-o lag-o'-pus sanc-tl-j6-han'-nls. Lat. archi-, equivalent to Gr. apxos, a 



leader, a chief ; &px<^, I rule, I am first ; the word simply means " arch-buzzard," like 

 archbishop, archeti/pe, architect, &c. — Lat. lagopus, Gr. Aaywrrous, hare-footed, from Aoywj, a 

 hare, and novs, a foot : in allusion to the feathering of the tarsi. The penult here remains 

 long in Latin as it is in Greek ; but words in -opus, where the is simply a connecting 

 vowel, shorten the penult. — Lat. sancti-johannis, of Saint John, alluding to the place in 

 Newfoundland so called. 



526. A. fer-ru-gin'-6-us. See Scolecophagus, No. 331. 



527. As-tur-i'-na pla-ga'-ta. Asturina is simply formed from Lat. astur, which see, No. 496, 



witliout any difference of meaning. — Lat. jilajata, striped, from plago, I strike ; plaga, a 

 blow, stroke, stripe ; Gr. Tr\y\yf\, a blow, wound, from irXiiaaui or irX^firrw, I strike. Com- 

 monly written plagiata, for which we see no good reason. 



528. U-ru-bi-tin'-ga an-thra-ci'-na. Urubitinga is a barbarous word, of some South American 



dialect ; urubu means a vulture ; we do not know what the rest of the word is, nor the 

 quantity of the first two vowels ; we hear them long and leave them so. — Lat. anthra- 

 cimis, Gr. avOpaKii/os, carbuncular ; dvOpa^, genitive &vdpaKos, a carbuncle ; also a live coal, 

 a coal. The application in the present case is not to a glowing coal, like a carbuncle, 

 but to a dead coal, coal-black; the glossy black of anthracite coal, as the bird is. 



529. 0-nych'-6-tes grii'-ber-i. Gr. ow|, genitive ouvxos, a claw; the rest of the word is the 



regular suffix -ttjs, -tes, making the whole signify " the clawed one." Notice the accent. 

 — To F. Gruber, a taxidermist of San Francisco. 



This bird is questionably North American ; but distinct from any Hawk in this list. 



530. Pan-di'-5n hal-I-a-e'-tus. Lat. Pandion, Gr. UaySiaiv, was the alleged father of Progne 



and Philomela : see Coues, B. Col. Vail., i, 1878, p. 371. Observe quantity and accent of 

 the penult. — Gr. aAj, genitive a\6s, salt, the sea, and arjTiJs, an eagle; "sea-eagle." 

 See Haliaetus, No. 533. 



531. Thra-sy-a-e'-tiis har-pyl'-a or har-py'-I-5 [eitlicr three or four syllables; in either case 



pronounced harpwcr'ah]. Gr. Opacrvs, bold, audacious, and arjrJs, eagle; see No. 533. 

 Generally written Thrasaetus, as originally by Gray : but the above is preferable ; com- 

 pare Thrasyas, Thrasybulus, Thrasi/machus, &C., all retaining the .y {v). — The°Ap7rviai. 



