CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



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871. Uria grylle (L.) Briiun. b 72g. c 631. r 760. 



Black Guillemot; Sea Pigeon. 



872. Uria columba (Pall.) Cass. B 727. C G32. R 761. 



Pigeon Guillemot, 



873. Uria carbo (Pall.) Brdt. b 728. c 633. r 762. 



Sooty Guillemot. 



874. Liomvia troile (L.) Brdt. b 729, 730. c 634. R 763. 



Common Guillemot j Murre. 



875. Lomvia troile californica (Bry.) Cones, b — . c — . R 763a. (?) 



California Guillemot. 



876. Lomvia arra (Pall.) Coues. b 731. c 635. r 764, 764a. 



Thick-billed Guillemot. 

 ,877. Utamania torda (L.) Leach. B 711. c 6I6. R 742. 



Razor-billed Auk. 



878. Alca impennis L. b 710. c 615. r 741. 



Great Auk. 



871. U'-ri-a gryV-le. Gesner and others stat« that ohpia is the Greek name of a guillemot, 



or some otlier water-bird. Uria occurs all through ornithology from Gesner, and was 

 made a genus by Brisson in 1760. The meaning we do not know ; perhaps akin to 

 urinari, Skr. ndri, water. — Gi/lle is said to be from Gr. ypvWl^w, I grunt ; the bird has 

 been called sibilans by some ; but grisla and gri/lle are N. European names. 



872. U. c61-iani'-ba. Lat. columba, a pigeon, applied in the same way that we call the bird 



" sea-pigeon " in English. 



873. U. car'-bo. Lat. carbo, a coal, charcoal ; here used in allusion to the uniformly sooty 



color, as if the bird were charred. 



874. L6m'-vi-a tro-i'-le. Lomivia and lomvia are two of many forms in which is found spelled 



the vernacular name of the bird, in Scotch, Faeroese, and related languages ; as Dan. 

 lun, Dutch loen, Eng. loon or loom. It was taken by Linnasus for the specific, and much 

 later by Brandt for the generic name. — Troile, on the contrary, may be of classic origin, 

 Troilus being the son of Priam ; also used as synonymous with Trojan ; application in 

 this case arbitrary, if any. Newton says "possibly a compliment to Troil, the Ice- 

 lander." Briinnich wrote it Troille in 1764 (Orn. Bor., p. 27). 



875. L. t. cal-i-for'-ni-ca. Pertaining to the State of California. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since recognized by Eidgway. 



876. L. ar'-ra. Lat. arra or arrha was purchase-money, or a pledge in earnest of a contract, 



and might have been applied by Pallas to a bird in such demand b}' the natives as to 

 serve as a sort of unit or standard of exchange in barter. " Salerne says the great blue 

 parrot of Brazil is called Arras or Ai-as ; this seems here transferred to the sea-parrot." 

 (Wharton's MSS.) 



877. U-ta-man'-i-a tor'-da. Both these words are mere Latinizations of vernacular names. 



Utamo.nia or utumania was in the bird-books long before Leach made a genus of it, and 

 so was tord or tordmule. We do not know what these words mean, further than that they 

 signify this species. Eay says (Syn., 1713, p. 119): "Ad litora Gretas invenitur; 

 indigenis 'Utamania' dicta." 



878. Al'-ca im-pen'-nis. Alca is not classic, being merely a Latinization of the vernacular 



name, found in several different forms, as alk, alck, allca, auk, awk. The third of these 



