124 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



802. Sterna trudeaui Aud. B 687. c 571. R 684. (is. A.) 



Trudeau's Tern. 



803. Sterna aleutica Bd. B . c 572. R 689. 



Aleutian Tern. 



804. Sterna fuliginosa Gm. B 688. c 573. R 691. 



Sooty Tern. 



805. Sterna anaesthetica Scop. B . c 574. R 692. 



Bridled Tern. 



806. Hydrochelidon lariformis (L., 1758) Coues. B 695. c 575. R 693. 



Black Tern. 



807. Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Meisn.) Boie. B . c 575&is. R 694. (! E.) 



White-winged Black Tern. 



808. Anotis stolidns (L.) Gray. B 696. c 576. R 695. 



Noddy Tern. 



809. Bhynchops nigra L. B 697. c 577. R 656. 



Black Skimmer. 



sion of certain emotions, as, surprise. But when surprised at anything, we question it, 

 or doubt it, and this implies a feeling of superiority in ourselves; -hence haughtiness, 

 loftiness, even disdain and scorn, for the person or object which makes us supercilious. 

 Super is the Gr. v-n-ep. Cilium is the eyelid, before transferred to the eyelashes ; it is the 

 Greek nvXa, the eyelids. Cilia, in the plural, has latterly been much used in the sciences 

 for any sort of little hairs or fringes, orjlagdla ; as, ciliated epithelium, &c. Lat. antil- 

 larum, of the Antilles ; in the genitive plural. 



802. S. tru-deau'-i. To Dr. James Trudeau, of Louisiana. 



Included as North American on the authority of Audubon. 



803. S. a-leu'-tl-ca. To the Aleutian Islands. 



804. S. fu-H-gin-o'-sa. See Canace, No. 559. 



805. S. an-aes-the'-ti-ca. Gr. avaKrO-nrucSs, insensible, unfeeling, not perceiving; hence, as 



applied to this bird, stupid, foolish ; a or av, privative, and otV^rtK^s, sensible, &c. ; 

 ctiffQ-riais, sensation, perception, feeling; aia-ddvoiJiai, I perceive. We have the English 

 aesthetic direct from the Greek, though this has experienced a refinement of meaning the 

 original did not possess ; also in medicine, anaesthesia, the state of insensibility produced 

 by such drugs as aether or chloroform, called from their property, ancesthetic. The word 

 has been brutally written anosthceta ; anastheta is one amendment already introduced, and 

 the above is a further improvement. 



806. Hy-dro-che'-H'-don lar-!-for'-mIs. Gr. fjSwp, water, and x f ^ct>v, a swallow, i.e., sea- 



swallow. Lat. lariformis, gull-like, shaped like a gull: larus and forma. 



807. H. leu-cop'-tS-ra. Gr. tevxos, white, and irrepov, wing. 



North America in one known instance (Wisconsin) ; see Brewer, Am. Nat., 1874, 

 p. 188. 



808. A'-nS-us st61'-?-diis. Gr. &voos or &vovs, literally mindless, unmindful of ; a privative and 



vovs, the mind, intellect, understanding. It is applied to the bird as exactly equivalent 

 to stolidus, or ancesthetica, as stolid, apathetic, insensible, in view of its indifference to 

 the presence of man. Lat. stolidus, stolid; related to stultus, foolish, silly. 



809. Rhynch'-ops nlg'-ra. Gr. pvyxs> tne beak, and dty, the face ; well applied to a bird whose 



extraordinary beak is such a prominent feature. Lat. niger, feminine nigra, black. 



