26 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



23. Harporhynchus redivivus (Gamb.) Cab. B 256. c 13. R 16. 



Californian Thrasher. 



24. Harporhynchus redivivus lecontii (Lawr.) Cones. B 257. c I3a. R i6a. 



Yuma Thrasher. 



25. Harporhynchus crissalis Henry. B 258. c 14. R 17. 



Crissal Thrasher. 



26. Saxicola cenanthe (L.) Bechst. B 157. c 15. R 21. (!E.) 



Stone Chat; Wheat-ear. 



27. Sialia sialis (L.) Hald. B 158. c 16. R 22. 



Eastern Blue-bird. 



28. Sialia mexicana Sw. B 159. c 17. R 23. 



Western Blue-bird. 



29. Sialia arctica Sw. B ieo. c is. R 24. 



Arctic Blue-bird. 



30. Cinclus mexicarms Sw. B 164. c 19. R 19. 



Water Ouzel; Dipper. 



31. Cyanecula suecica (L.) Brm. B . c . R 20. (!A.) 



Blue-throated Redstart. 



23. H. rg-dl-vi'-viis. Lat. redivivus, revived, from re-, red-, redi-, in sense of back again, and 



ri'rws, living. Gambel discovered in this bird a long-lost species of an older author. 



24. H. r. l6-c6n'-tl-i. To Dr. John L. Le Conte, of Philadelphia, the famous entomologist. 



25. H. cris-sa'-lls. No such Latin word; there is a verb criso or crisso, used of a certain 



motion of the haunches ; crissum is a technical word lately derived therefrom, signifying 

 in ornithology the under tail-coverts, which in this bird are red. Cf. Gr. Kpi<r<r6s, Kipvds. 



26. Sax-I'-cQ-la oe-nan'-the [oo-ay-nanthe, as if way-nanthe]. Lat. saxicola, a rock-inhab- 



itant; saxum, a rock, and incola (in and co/o), an inhabitant. Lat. vhiflora, and Gr. 

 olvdvQi), signify precisely the same thing : the bird is prettily named "flower of the vine : " 

 Lat. vitis, the vine,y?ora, a flower. The Gr. oivdvOn, whence Lat. cenanthe, is an uncertain 

 bird mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny ; the name was definitely applied to this species 

 in 1555. The word primarily relates to the grape, ofc/rj, as if the bird were one which 

 frequented vineyards, or appeared with the flowering (foeos) of the vine. 



27. SI-aT-I-5 sl'-al-Is. Gr. <ria\ls, a bird, in "Ath. 392 F ; " from <ria\ov, saliva ; verb o-taX/^w, 



I slaver, or make some sibilant noise. To call this Anacreon a slobberer ! 



28. S. mex-T-ca'-na. Latinized from Mexican. The country is called Mexico, Mejico, or 



Mehico, from Mexitli, the Aztec god of war. 



29. S. arc'-tl-cS. Lat. arctica, northern, arctic ; i. e., Gr. & P KTOS, a bear, ap K r^6s, near the bear. 



30. Cin'-clus mex-I-ca'-nfis. Gr. Kl-y^os, Lat. Cinclus, the name of a bird, by some supposed 



to be the European Cinclus aquaticus, by others a kind of Sandpiper ; K iyK\i& is to 

 wag the tail. Lat. mexicanus, see No. 28. 



31. C?-an-g'-cfi-la sue'-cl-ca. Cyanecula is a diminutive substantive lately (perhaps not before 



Brisson, 1760) formed from the Lat. adjective cyaneus, Gr. Kvdvfos or Kvavts, blue ; mean- 

 ing, as we might say, " bluet/' Rubecula is a word similarly coined. Lat. suecica or 

 svecica, Swedish ; Sweden having been called Suecia or Svecia. In that country the bird 

 is said to be called " Charles's-bird," Carls-fogel, whence Avis Carolina of some of the 



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treatises written in Latin. " Redstart " is a corruption of fto^itera, meaning "redtail, 

 and Ruticilla and Phoenicurus are among the translated book-names of the species. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. See Ibis, 1878, p. 422. Alaska. 



