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[Genus PROGNE, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 971. 



Progne = Tlpoicvr], daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, sister of Philomela 

 and wife of Tereus, mythologically changed into a Swallow. From the root of 

 speckled, Trepfc?; = a perch, &c. 



Progne purpurea. PUEPLE MARTIN. 



H i r u n do purpurea, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 344 (1766) . 



Progne purpurea, Gray, p. 34 ; Newton, ii. p. 361 ; Gould, i. 



intr. p. .11. 

 Hirundo purpurea, Harting, p. 125. 



Purpurea = purple. 



One is said to have been shot near Kingstown, co. Dublin, 

 early in 1840. Common over the greater part of America; a 

 summer visitor in North America.] 



Section OSCINES CURVIROSTRES. 



Family CERTHIID^. 

 Genus CERTHIA, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 184 (1766). 



Certhm, the late Latin form of KepQios, a bird known to Aristotle. 



Certhia familiaris. THEE-CREEPER. 



Certhia familiaris, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 184 (1766). 

 Certhia familiaris, Naum. v. p. 398; Macg. iii. p. 33; Hewit- 



son, p. 243 ; Gray, p. 39 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 165 ; id. 



ed. 3, ii. p. 170; Newton, i. p. 468; Gould, ii. pi. 64; 



Harting, p. 20 ; Dresser, iii. p. 195. 

 Common Creeper, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 158. 



Familiaris = friendly, from familia = the household. 



Resident in all the wooded districts of the United 

 Kingdom, except in the outer Scotch isles. The Tree-creeper, 

 or one of its climatic varieties, occurs throughout the Palse- 

 arctic and Nearctic Regions. 



