126 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



818. Daptium capense (L.) Steph. B639. c 584. R 719. (!) 



Pintado Petrel; Cape Pigeon. 



819. CEstrelata hsesitata (Kuhl) Coues. B 638. c 585. R 717. (!) 



Black-capped Petrel. [See Addenda, No. 887. 



820. CEstrelata bulweri (Jard. & Selb.) Coues. B . c . R 718. (G. !E.) 



Bulwer's Petrel. 



821. Halocyptena microsoma Coues. B . c 58C. R 720. 



Least Petrel. 



822. Procellaria pelagica L. B 645. c 587. R 721. 



Stormy Petrel. 



823. Cymochorea leucorrhoa (V.) Coues. B 642. c 588. R 723. 



Leach's Petrel. 



billed ; tenuis, slender, slight ; more literally thin, as if spread out thin ; from tenuo, I 

 make thin, dilute, rarefy ; from Gr. rflvu>, I stretch out, spread out, extend. 

 The bird is questionably North American, unless as astray on the high sea. 



818. Dap'-tl-um cap-en'-se". Gr. Sdrrriov or SUTTTIOV, a diminutive of SvTmjs or Urrjs, a diver. 



This set of words vary in the vowels in different dictionaries, and may not all be found ; 

 compounds of them are seen in ornithology in eudyptes, eudyt.es, c. They are all from 

 one root. The above is almost universally written daption, but in transliteration from 

 Greek to Latin becomes properly daptium. Capense, of the Cape of Good Hope, which 

 was the cape in those days ; Caput Bonce-Spei, as it was called ; caput, head, a headland. 

 " Pintado " is painted ; i. e., of variegated colors ; pingo, I paint. 

 Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



819. Oes-tre'-la-ta haes-i-ta'-ta. Gr. oiVrp^AoTos, literally, goaded on by a gad-fly, (i.e., a 



goad-fly), olvrpos, oestrus, as cattle are; hence, goaded on in any way, as these wide- 

 ranging ocean birds seem to be by some mysterious impulse winch drives them over the 

 waves. The latter part of the word, -lata, the "goaded on " part of the whole idea, is from 

 the Gr. c'AoiW, I urge on, drive. Lat. hcesitata, literally, stuck fast; hcesito, I stick fast, 

 intensified from hcerco, I hang to, cleave to, adhere ; in a tropical sense, I hesitate ; the 

 latter is the application in this case, the describer of the bird being uncertain about it, 

 and therefore hesitating to name it. When at length the above generic and specific 

 terms were combined, the bird was put in the bad way of a stuck-fast gad-about ! 

 Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



820. O. bul'-wgr-i. To Bulwer. 



Only North American as a straggler to Greenland. See Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. 

 Greenl., 1875, p. 108 ; Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. 378. 



821. Hal-o-cyp-te'-na mic-rS-so'-ma. Gr. ii\s, genitive a\6s, the salt sea, UKVS, swift, TTTTJ^OS, 



winged. Gr. fj.(Kpos, small, troD/m, body; "the sharp-winged little sea-body." 



822. PrS-cel-la'-rl-a pgl-a'-gl-ca. Lat. proceRaria or procellosa, stormy, tempestuous, relating 



to storm ; proce/la, a storm. Gr. Tre\aytKos, pelagic, relating to the sea ; thoroughly 

 Greek, but transferable into Latin. Petrel is commonly fancied to be a diminutive 

 of Peter, Petrus, who attempted to walk on the sea of Galilee, as these little birds seem 

 to be continually doing, in the way they patter over the ocean waves ; but there are 

 many forms of petrel, as petteril, peterel, &c., and the word may be related to the verb 

 to patter, just used. 



823. C^-mo-chSr-e'-a leu-cor'-rho-a. Gr. Kv^a, genitive KV/J.CITOS, the surging billows, and 



xopeio or xP?? a > a choir, a dancing; literally, the wave-dancers. One of my critics has 

 favored me with an excellent reason why, according to his faithful dictionary, the 



