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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



23. Harporhynchus redivivus (Gamb.) Cab. b 266. c is. r i6. 



Caltfbrnlan Thrasher. 



24. Harporhynchu!3 redivivus lecontii (Lawr.) Coues. b 257. c isa. r i6a. 



Yuma Thrasher, 



25. Harporhynchus crissalis Henry, b 258. c 14. k 17. 



Crlssal Thrasher. 



26. Saxicola cenanthe (L.) Bechst, b 157. c 15. r 21. (!e.) 



stone Chat; Wheat-ear. 



27. Sialia sialis (L.) Hald. B I68. c 16. R 22. 



Eastern Blue-bird. 



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



Western Blue-Tjird. 



29. Sialia arctica Sw. B ico. c I8. R 24. 



Arctic Blue-bird. 



30. Cinclus mexicanus Sw. b i64. c 19. r 19. 



Water Ouzel ; Dipper. 



31. Cyanecula suecica (L.) Brm. b — . c — . r 20. (!a.) 



Blue-throated Redstart. 



23. H. rfi-dl-vi'-vQs. Lat. redlricns, revived, from re-, red-, redi-, in sense of liack agnin, and 



vims, livinj?. Gaiiibel discovcrt'd in tills l)ird a long-lost species of an older autlior. 



24. H. r. Ie-c6n'-tl-i. To Dr. Jolin L. Lc Conte, of I'liiladelpliia, tlie famous entomologist. 



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



motion of the liaunclies ; ciissiiiii is a technical word lately derived therefrom, signifying 

 in ornithology the under tail-coverts, which in this bird are rod. Cf. Or. KpiaaSs, KtpaSi. 



26. Sax-I'-c6-la oe-nan'-the (oo-ay-nanthe, as if way-nantlie|. Lat. saxicola, a rock-inhab- 



itant ; sarinii, a rock, and incola {in and co/o), an inliabitant. — Lat. viliJJora, and Gr. 

 oiVo>'9jj, signify precisely the same thing : the bird is prettily named "flower of tlic vine : " 

 Lat. vitis, the vine,. //oca, a flower. The Gr. olvivBii, whence Lat. ananlhe, 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, oKn, ns if the bird were one which 

 frequented vineyards, or appeared with the flowering (Mos) of the vino. 



27. St-51'-I-a sI'-ai-Ts. Gr. amKis, a bird, in " Ath. JWi F ; " from ir/dAoi/, saliva ; verb aia\i(u, 



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



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



Mchico, from Meritli, the Aztec god of war. 



29. S. 3rc'-tT-c5. Lnt. arrtira, northern, arctic ; i. e., Gr. ApK-roi, a bear, apwrmdi, near the bear. 

 bO. Cin'-clQs mSx-I-ca'-nOs. Gr. KiyKKot, Lat. Cinrhis, tlie name of a bird, by some supposed 



to be the European Cinclus aquaticus, by others a kind of Sandpiper ; KiyKMCi» is to 

 wag the tail. — Lat. mexicamis, see No. 28. 

 31. Cj>-an-e'-cQ-15 suS'-cT-cS. Ci/aneciila is a diminutive substantive lately (perhaps not before 

 Brisson, 1700) formed from the Lat. adjective cyaneus, Gr. Kvdvfos or Kvav6s, blue ; mean- 

 ing, as wo might say, "bluet." Rnl^'cnla is a word similarly coined. —Lat. sKcorn or 

 svrrira, Swedish ; Sweden having been called Suecia or Sceria. In that country the binl 

 is said to be called " Cliarles's-bird," Carh-for/el, whence Avis Carolina of s..me of the 

 treatises written in Latin. — " Redstart " is a corruption of SRotllflerj, meaning " redtail," 

 Aud'jiulicllla and IVianicurus are among the translated book-names of the species. 

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



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