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824. Cymochorea melaena (Bp.) Coues. b 643. c 589. R 724. 



Black Petrel. 



825. Cymochorea homochroa Coues. B — . c 590. r 725. 



Ashy Petrel. 



826. Oceanodroma furcata (Gm.) Bp. b 640. c 59i. r 726. 



Fork-tailed Petrel. 



827. Oceanodroma hornbyi (Gr.) Bp. b 64i. c 592. r 727. 



Hornby's Petrel. 



828. Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) Coues. B 644. c 593. R 722. 



Wilson's Petrel. 



829. Fregetta grallaria (V.) Bp. b 646. c 594. R 728. (!) 



La^vrence's Petrel. 



830. Priofinus melanurus (Bonn.) Ridg. B 651. c 595. R 707. (!) 



Black-tailed Shearwater. 



word ought to have been ci/malochoreutes. We would refer him to his dictionary again 

 for certain words beginning with s)jnc- and euph-. The stem of the first part of the word 

 is seen in accumulate, to roll up ; of the second in chord, choir, choral, choresis, or chorea 

 (St. Vitus's dance), &c. — Gr. Aeu/co's, white, and ip'pos, the rump. 



824. C. m61-ae'-na. Gr. )ueAa$, feminine fxtXatva, black. The orthography introduced by 



Bonaparte, melania, requires to be emended as above. 



825. C. ho-mo'-chro-a. Gr. bfjL6s, equal, like, and xpo'«> color; in allusion to the unicolor 



plumage. 



826. 0-c6-an-6'-dr6-ma fQr-ca'-ta. Gr. 'il/ceafoy, Oceamis, the divinity of, and the ocean 



itself; supposed to be ukvs, swift, and ceco, I flow. See Ammodramus, No. 238, and 

 Ilydranassa, No. 660. — l^Vit. furcatus, forked; furca, a fork. 



827. O. horn'-by-i. To Admiral Hornby, R. N. 



828. O-ce-an-i'-tes 5-ce-an'-i-cus. Gr. diKtav'nri'!, a son of the sea; sprung from Oceanus. 



See Oceanodroma, No. 826. — Gr. oiKiaviKSs, oceanic. 



829. Fr6-get'-ta gral-la'-ri-a. Fregetta, fregeta, fregata, as variously spelled, is from the Ital. 



fregata. Spun, fragata, Yr. frigate, 'Eng. frigate ; according to Diez, the hai. fabric ata ; 

 originally applied in French ornithology to the bird called man-of-war, Tachgpetes 

 aquihis ; applied by English ornithologists about 1790 to some species of the present 

 family, and very lately taken by Bonaparte for a generic term. — Grallce, among the 

 Romans, was a pair of stilts, the word being contracted from gradtda, this from gradus, 

 a step ; and the GraJlatores were people who acted on the stage on stilts. The word was 

 early taken in ornithology for wading birds, called graZ/fE or grail atores, from their length 

 of leg; from these words we have derived the English adjectives grallarial and grallato- 

 rial ; and grallaria is an obvious easy Latin derivative, though probably never used by 

 the Romans. 



Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



830. PrI-6'-fIn-us mel-an-Q'-rus. Priofinus, unless we are mistaken, is a dreadful concoction 



oi prion and pnffinus, by the same victims of misapplied ingenuity who gave us Priocella; 

 see this. No. 817, and Pujffinus, next below. — Gr. jueAos, genitive ntKavos, black, and 

 oipa, tail. 



Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



