12G CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



818. Daptium capeiise (L.) Steph. B639. c 584. r 719. (!) 



Piutado Petrel; Cape Pigeon. 



819. CEstrelata hssitata (Kuhl) Coues. B 638. c 585. R in. (!) 



Black-capped Petrel. [See Addenda, No. 887. 



820. CEstrelata bulweri (Jard. & Selb.) Coues. B — . c — . R 718. (G. !E.) 



Bulwer's Petrel. 



821. Halocyptena microsoma Coues. b — . c 586. R 720. 



Least Petrel. 



822. Procellaria pelagica L. b 645. c 5S7. R 721. 



stormy Petrel. 



823. Cymochorea leucorrhoa (V.) Coues. b 642. c 588. R 723. 



Leach's Petrel. 



billed; tenuis, slender, slight; more literally thin, as if spread out thin; from tonto,! 

 make thin, dilute, rarefy ; from Gr. Telvw, I stretch out, spread out, extend. 

 The bird is questionably North American, unless as astray on the high sea. 



818. Dap'-ti-um cap-en'-s6. Gr. Sajmov or Sv^rrtov, a diminutive of SuTrTT}s or Sinjs, a diver. 



This set of words vary in the vowels in different dictionaries, and may not all be found ; 

 compounds of them are seen in ornithology in eudyptes, eudytes, &c. They are all from 

 one root. The above is almost universally written dajition, but in transliteration from 

 Greek to Latin becomes properly daptium. — Capense, of the Cape of Good Hope, which 

 was the cape in those days ; Caput Bonce-Sjiei, as it was called ; caput, head, a headland. 

 — " Pintado " is painted ; i. e., of variegated colors ; plngo, I paint. 

 Only North American as astray on the liigh sea. 



819. Oes-tre'-la-ta haes-i-ta'-ta. Gr. olcTTprjXaTos, literally, goaded on by a gad-fly, (i.e., a 



goad-fly), olcrrpos, astrus, as cattle are; hence, goaded on in any way, as these wide- 

 ranging ocean birds seem to be by some mysterious impulse wliich drives them over the 

 waves. The latter part of the word, -lata, the " goaded on " part of the whole idea, is from 

 tlie Gr. ihavvw, I urge on, drive. — Lat. hcesitata, literally, stuck fast; hoisilo, I stick fast, 

 intensified from hcereo, I hang to, cleave to, adAere ; in a tropical sense, I hesitate ; the 

 latter is the application in this case, the describer of the bird being uncertain about it, 

 and therefore hesitating to name it. When at length the above generic and specific 

 terms were combined, the bird was put in the bad way of a stuck-fast gad-about ! 

 Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



820. O. bul'-wer-T. To Bulwer. 



Only North American as a straggler to Greenland. See Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. 

 Greenl., 1875, p. 108 ; Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. 378. 



821. Hal-6-cyp-te'-na mic-ro-so'-ma. Gr. a\s, genitive a.\6s, the salt sea, ojkvs, swift, nT-qvos, 



winged. — Gr. /xtKpos, small, o-ai/xa, body ; " the sharp-winged little sea-body." 



822. Pro-cel-la'-rl-a pel-a'-gi-ca. Lat. procellaria or procellosa, stormy, tempestuous, relating 



to storm ; procella, a storm. — Gr. ireXayiKos, pelagic, relating to the sea ; thorouglily 

 Greek, but transliterable into Latin. — Petrel is commonly fancied to be a diminutive 

 of Peter, Petrus, who attempted to walk on the sea of Galilee, as these little birds seem 

 to be continually doing, in the way they patter over the ocean waves ; but there are 

 many forms of petrel, as petteril, peterel, &c., and tlie word may be related to the verb 

 to patter, just used. 



823. Cy-m6-ch6r-e'-a leu-cor'-rho-a. Gr. /cO/io, genitive kv/xutos, the surging billows, and 



Xopeia or xop'?"' ^ choir, a dancing; literally, the wave-dancers. One of my critics has 

 favored me with an excellent reason why, according to his faithful dictionary, the 



