GLOSSARY OF SPECIFIC NAMES. 



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pinus: pine tree, 

 pipiens: chirping : piping, 

 piscivorus: fish-eating, 

 pisculentus: fishy, 

 plagiatus: thievish, 

 plargyrus: Gr. silver-sided, 

 platycephalus: Gr. flat-headed, 

 platyrhinus: Gr. flaf- nosed, 

 platyrhynchus: Gr. flat-nosed, 

 platystomus: Gr. flat-mouthed, 

 plumbeolus: lead-colored, 

 pcecilura: Gr. tail variegated, 

 polyglottus: many- voiced, 

 pomatorhinus: Gr. snout operculate. 

 podiceps: a grebe, 

 pomotis: a sun fish, 

 porosus: porous, 

 porphyriticus: purplish, 

 portlandicus: pertaining to Portland, 

 praestabilis: standing first, 

 pratiucola: living in meadows, 

 princeps: princely, 

 principalis: princely, 

 procne: Gr. a swallow, 

 productus: produced, 

 promelas: Gr. black forwards, 

 proriger: having a prow, 

 prosthemius: added, 

 protacanthus : Gr. anterior spine 



large. 



proteus: of many shapes, 

 proximus: near, 

 pruinosus : frosty, 

 pseudogeographicus : not quite geo- 



graphicus. 



pseudoharengus: not quite a herring, 

 pubescens: pubescent, 

 pugnax: quarrelsome, 

 pulchellus: pretty, 

 pull us: dusky, 

 punctatus: dotted, 

 puuctulatus: finely dotted. 

 purpureus: purple, 

 pusillus: weak, 

 putorius: ill-scented, 

 pygmaeus: pigmy, 

 quadracus: four-spined. 

 quadrilateralis: four-sided, 

 quadrivittatus: four-striped 

 querulus: querulous, 

 quiescens: quiescent, 

 quinnat: an Indian name for the sal- 

 mon, meaning glittering. 

 radix: Root criver in Wisconsin). 



rattus: rat. 



regius: royal. 



reticulatus: reticulate. 



rhombifer: bearing rhombs. 



rhotheus: Gr. pertaining to falls. 



rigidus: rigid. 



riparius: pertaining to shores. 



robustus: robust. 



rostratus: large-billed or snouted. 



rubellus: reddish. 



ruber: red. 



rubicundus: ruddy. 



rubidus: ruddy. 



rubricaudus: red-tailed. 



rubricroceus: saffron-red. 



rubrifrons: red-faced, 

 rufescens: rusty- red. 

 ruficapillus: rusty-crowned, 

 rufilineatus: rusty-lined, 

 rufus: rusty-red, 

 rugosus: rough, 

 rupestris: living among rocks, 

 rusticola: living in the country, 

 ruticilla: somewhat fiery red. 

 rutilus: fiery red. 

 sacer: sacred, 

 salar: a salmon, 

 salmoides: like a salmon, 

 salmoneus: like a trout, 

 sanguifluus: blood-flowing, 

 sanguinolentus: bloody, 

 sapidissimus: most delicious to eat. 

 satrapa: a prince (knight), 

 sauritus: like a lizard, 

 savanna: Savanna, 

 scaber; rough, 

 scabriceps: rough -headed, 

 scandiacus : ascending ( or Scandi- 

 navian?) 



scomberius: mackerel-like, 

 scopiferus: bearing a mark, 

 scutatus: with scutes, 

 scylla: a rock near Charybdis 

 sebago: Lake Sebago. 

 selene: Gr. the moon, 

 selenops: Gr. moon-eye, 

 semifasciatus: half-banded, 

 semipalmatus: semipalmate. 

 septentrionalis: northern, 

 serpentinus: serpent-like, 

 s er rator : one that saws, 

 serripinnis: sa\v-finned. 

 sexlineatus: six-lined, 

 sialis: plump. 



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