30 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



59. Sitta canadensis L. B 279. c. 39. R 52. 



Red-bellied Nut-hatch. 



60. Sitta pusilla Lath. B 280. c. 40. R 53. 



Brown-headed Nut-hatch. 



61. Sitta pygmsea Vig. B 281. C4i. R 54. 



Pygmy Nut-hatch. 



62. Certhia familiaris L. B 275. c 42. R 55. 



Brown Creeper. 



63. Campylorhynchus brunneicapiUus (Lafr.) Gr. B 262. c 43. R 56. 



Brown-headed Cactus Wren. 



64. Campylorhynchus affinis Bd. B . c 44. R 57. 



St. Lucas Cactus Wren. 



65. Salpinctes obsoletus (Say) Cab. B 264. c 45. R 58. 



Bock Wren. 



66. Catherpes mexicanus (Sw.) Bd. B 263. c . R 59. (IM) 



Canon Wren. 



59. S. ca-nad-en'-sls. Latinized from Canadian. Nut-hatch is nut-hatcher or nut-hacker (Fr. 



hacher, Swed. hacka), the bird that hacks, pecks, nuts; also called nut-jobber, to job 

 being to peck, or thrust at. 



60. S. pu-sil'-la [puceellah, not pewzillerj. Lat. pusillus, petty, puerile; directly formed from 



pwr,pusus, or pusio (Gr. ), a boy; here and commonly used simply as signifying 

 small. The Sanskrit root reappears in endless forms of kindred meaning. 



61. S. pyg-mae'-a. Gr. irvy^, the fist; hence irvy polos, Lat. pygmceus, a pygmy, fistling, or 



torn-thumb. As a measure of length, from elbow to clenched fist, a irvyp.^ was about 

 13| inches ; the original Pygmies were a race of African dwarfs at war with the Cranes ; 

 pygmceus came afterward to mean any thing pygmy, dwarfed, and is here applied to a 

 very small nut-hatch. Compare Machetes pugnax, No. 639. 



62. Cer'-thl-a fam-fl-I-a'-rls. Gr. KfpQios, Lat. cert/iius, become later certhia. The name 



occurs in Aristotle, who apparently uses it for this very species, which he also calls 

 Kvnro\6yos, cnipologus ; that is to say, a gatherer of insects ; nvfy, a bug, and \4ya>, I col- 

 lect. Lat. familiaris, familiar, domestic, hence common ; familia, or older familias, the 

 family, the household. 



63. Cam-p3r-16-rhyn'-chus brun-nei-c3p-flMus [broonaycapeellus]. Gr. Ko/iTruAos, bent, from 



KO/UTTTW, I bend ; and ftyxos (rhynchus), beak. Lat. brunneus, brown ; capillus, hair. The 

 adjective brunneus is post-classic, Latinized from It. bruno, Fr. brun, Germ, braun ; A. S. 

 bt/rnan, to burn ; related are brand, brunt, and many similar words, among them brant ; see 

 Bernida, No. 700. 



64. C. af-fin'-Is [affeen'is]. Lat. affinis, L e., ad and finis, at the end of, hence bordering on, 



neighboring ; here in the sense of related to, resembling, having affinity with,, No. 63. 



65. Sal-pinc'-tes ob-sS-le'-tus. Gr. ffaXmyKriis, a trumpeter, becoming in Latin salpinctes, from 



adXiriy^ (salpigx = salpinx), a trumpet ; in allusion to the bird's loud, ringing song. 

 Lat. obsoletus, unaccustomed, from ob, against, and soleo, I am wont ; hence obsolete, in 

 sense of effaced, all the colors of the bird being dull. Wren is A. S. wrenna. 



66. Cath-er'-pes mex-T-ca'-nus. Gr. /coffees, a creeper; /ca0e/>ira>, I creep down, from icard, 



down, and e/wrw, I creep, crawl. The stem of the word is seen in herpes, the disease 

 which creeps over the skin ; herpetology, the science of creeping things, reptiles ; repto or 

 repo, I creep, in Latin, simply altered from epirta. Lat. mexicanus, see No. 28. 



