124 CHECK LIST OF NOBTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



802. Sterna trudeaui Aud. b 687. c 571. r 684. (! s. a.) 



Trudeau's Tern. 



/ 803. Sterna aleutica Bd. b — . c 572. r 689. 



Aleutian Tern, 



804. Sterna fuliginosa Gm. b 688. c 573. r 691. 



Sooty Tern. 



- 805. Sterna anaesthetica Scop, b — . c 574. R692. 



Bridled Tern. 



806. Hydrochelidon lariformis (L., 1758) Coues. b 695. c 575. r 693. 



Black Tern. 



807. Hydrochelidon lencoptera (Meisn.) Boie. b — . c 5756is. R 694. (! E.) 



White-winged Black Tern. 



808. Anotis stolidus (L.) Gray. B 696. c 576. R 695. 



Noddy Tern. 



809. Rhynchops nigra L. B 697. c 577. R 656. 



Black Skimmer. 



sion of certain emotions, as, surprise. But when surprised at anything, we question it, 

 or doubt it, and this impHes a feeling of superiority in ourselves ; hence hauglitiness, 

 loftiness, even disdain and scorn, for the person or object wliich malvcs us supercilious. 

 Super is tlie Gr. vnep. Cilium is tlie eyelid, before transferred to the eyelashes ; it is tlie 

 Greek Kv\a, the eyelids. Cilia, in the plural, has latterly been much used in the sciences 

 for any sort of little hairs or fringes, or flarjdla ; as, ciliated epithelium, &c. — Lat. until- 

 larum, of the Antilles ; in the genitive plural. 



802. S. tru-deau'-i. To Dr. James Trudeau, of Louisiana. 



Included as North American on the authority of Audubon. 



803. S. a-leu'-ti-ca. To the Aleutian Islands. 



804. S. fu-li-gin-o'-sa. See Canace, No. 559. 



805. S. an-aes-the'-ti-ca. Gr. a.vaia-6riTtK6s, insensible, unfeeling, not perceiving; hence, as 



applied to this bird, stupid, foolish ; d or av, privative, and ala-dTiTiKSs, sensible, &c. ; 

 aia-Oyja-is, sensation, perception, feeling; alaQavofxai, I perceive. We liave the English 

 cesthetic direct from the Greek, though this has experienced a refinement of meaning the 

 original did not possess ; also in medicine, anaesthesia, the state of insensibility produced 

 by such drugs as aether or chloroform, called from their property, ancesthetic. The word 

 has been brutally written anosthceta ; ancestheta is one amendment already introduced, and 

 the above is a further improvement. 



806. Hy-dro-che-li'-don lar-i-for'-mis. Gr. v5a>p, water, and x^^'Soi:', a swallow, i. e., sea- 



swallow. — Lat. lariformis, gull-like, shaped like a gull: larus a^wtl forma. 



807. H. Ieu-c6p'-tg-ra. Gr. XevR6s, white, and irrdpov, wing. 



North America in one known instance (Wisconsin); see Brewer, Am. Nat., 1874, 

 p. 188. 



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808. A'-nS-us st61'-!-dus. Gr. ^j-oos or Sj/ous, literally mindless, unmindful of ; o privative and 



vovs, the mind, intellect, understanding. It is applied to the bird as exactly equivalent 

 to stolidus, or amesthetica, as stolid, apathetic, insensible, in view of its indifference to 

 the presence of man. — Lat. stolidus, stolid; related to stullus, foolish, silly. 



809. Rhynch'-ops nig'-ra. Gr. ^vyxos, the beak, and Htl/, the face ; well applied to a bird whose 



extraordinary beak is such a prominent feature. — Lat. niyer, feminine nigra, black. 



