40 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



141. G-eothlypis trichas (L.) Cab. B 170. c 97. R 122. 



Maryland Yellow- throat. 



142. G-eothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.) Bd. B 172. c 98. R 120. 



Mourning Warbler. 



143. Geothlypis macgillivrayi (Aud.) Bd. B 173. c 99. R 121. 



Macgillivray's Warbler. 



144. Icteria virens (L.) Bd. B 176. c 100. R 123. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 



145. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.) Coues. B 177. c iooa. R i23a. 



Long-tailed Chat. 



146. Myiodioctes mitratiis (Gm.) Aud. B 211. c 101. R 124. 



Hooded Flycatching Warbler. 



141 . Gg-othMy-pIs trlch'-Ss. Gr. 77) or y4a, the earth, and \virls, " a proper name." Gr. epl, 



genitive rpix^s, hair; there is also the actual word rpixds, for some kind of a thrush, 

 occurring in Aristotle. Some take the rpixds of Aristotle to be the bird named by 

 Linnaeus Turdus pilaris, i. e., the hairy thrush ; but Sundevall reasonably identifies it 

 with T. musicus. Of course it had originally nothing to do with the present species, to 

 which Linnaeus applied the term trichas in 1766. Cabanis coined Geothlypis in 1847, 

 simply explaining \wis as a "proper name." The meaning of the term is obscure, 

 but we think it may be explained, considering that 6\viris is the same as 6paviris, which 

 latter occurs in Aristotle as the name of some conirostral granivorous bird never satis- 

 factorily identified. Sundevall says epaviris ,,witrbe in eintgen codices &\vrris (Thlypis) 

 Qefcfyrieben" ; and the identity of the two words appears to be established, seeing that 

 6\du, I break, bruise, crush, whence d\aviris, has the same meaning as 6pav<a, whence 

 Qpaviris. (See Aristoph., Av. 466.) In each case the name is that of a bird considered 

 as granivorous as a seed-eater, i. e., seed-breaker, famenfreffenber, coccothraustes, a-iropo- 

 6\d<rTi)s, K.T.A.. But the name, though thus perfectly explicable, is very badly chosen 

 to designate a strictly insectivorous species, its only pertinence being in geo-, signifying 

 the humility of this bird of brake and briar. 



142. G. phfl-a-del'-phl-a. Named for the "city of brotherly love." Gr. <f>i\cw, I love, elSeA^y, 



brother ; the latter from d connective (for a/j.a) and SeXtyts, the womb, that is, having 

 one mother. But the compound itself, Philadelphia, is classic, as the name of a city, and 

 there are the actual words 0iA.a5eA.0eta, <iAa8eA<ia, amorfraternus, charitas fraterna. The 

 Lat. is marked for quantity as above in the authority consulted ; but some contend for 

 the Greek accent, philadelphl'-a. 



143. G. mac-gll-llv-ray'-i. To William Macgillivray, Esq., of Edinburgh, author of much of 



Audubon's scientific work, besides several other important treatises. 



144. Ic-teV-I-a vlr'-ens. A dialectic form, invented by Vieillot, of Gr. fcn-epos or Lat. icterus ; 



primarily, the disease jaundice ; also a certain yellow bird, probably the golden oriole of 

 Europe, by the sight of which jaundiced patients were fancied to be cured. The name 

 was in 1760 by Brisson applied to the American orioles as a generic term, Icterus ; and 

 by Vieillot later, in the form Icteria, to the present genus. Lat. virens, present parti- 

 ciple of vireo, I grow green. 



145. I. v. lon-gl-caud'-a [-cowda]. Lat. longus, long, and cauda, tail. 



146. MyI-5-dI-5c'-tes mi-tra'-tfis. Gr. jui/Ta, a fly, and SIC^KTIJS, a pursuer. Lat. mitratus, 



wearing a turban ; Gr. nirpa, a turban or other head-dress, cf. mr6<a, I weave. The 

 word is sometimes six-syllabled, but properly reducible to five, the yl, from Gr. vt, being 

 slurred ; the sound is that of mwee-, not ml- or me-. 



