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141. Geothlypis trichas (L.) Cab. b no. c 97. R 122. 



Maryland Yellow-throat. 



142. Geothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.) Bd. B 172. c 98. R 120. 



Mourning Warbler. 



143. Geothlypis macgillivrayi (And.) Bd. b 173. c 99. r 121. 



Miu-gilllvray's Warbler. 



144. loteria virens (L.) Bd. b i76. c 100. r 123. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 



145. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.) Coues. b 177. c looa. r i23a. 



Long-tailed Chat. 



146. Myiodioctes mitratus (Gm.) And. B 211. c 101. R 124. 



Hooded Flycatching Warbler, 



141 . Ge-5th'-ly-pls trlch'-5s. Gr. 7^ or yfa, the cartli, and QKuiris, " a proper name." — Gr. Spi'J, 



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

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

 Linnwus Tardus pilaris, i. e., the hairy thrusii ; but Sundevall reasonably identifies it 

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

 which Linnaeus applied the term triclias in 17G0. — Cabanis coined (Jiothli/pis in 1847, 

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

 but we think it may be explained, considering that eKviris is the same as Bpaviris, wiiicli 

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

 factorily identified. Sundevall says Bpaviris „unirbc ill cinii^cn codices &\virls (Thlypis) 

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

 6\d<i), I break, bruise, crush, whence 6\auiris, has the same meaning as Bpavo), whence 

 Bpavirls. (See Aristoph., Av. 400.) In each case the name is that of a bird considered 

 as granivorous — as a seed-eater, i.e., seed-hrcaker, famciifrciKiitcr, coccoihrausles, awopo- 

 6\d(TTris. K.T.K. But tlie name, though thus perfectly explicable, is ver3' badly chosen 

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

 tlie humility of this bird of brake and briar. 



142. G. phIl-5-dsr-phI-a. Named for the " city of brotherly love." Gr. (piKfa, I love, aStS<p69, 



brother; the latter from a connective (for &ixa) and 5fA(/)i5j, the womb, that is, having 

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

 there are the actual words <J)iAa8e'Ai/>€ia, <^i\aZ(K<pia, amorfraternus, chariUisfraterna. The 

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

 the Greek accent, pliiladiljihi'-a. 



143. G. m5c-g!l-llv-ray'-i. To William Macgillivray, Esq., of Edinburgh, author of much of 



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



144. Ic-t6r'-l-a vIr'-Sns. A dialectic form, invented by Vieillot, of Gr. XKTtpos or Lat. icterus; 



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

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

 was in 1700 by Brisson applied to the American orioles as a generic term, Tclenis ; and 

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

 ciple of i-i'iTo, I grow green. 



145. I. V, lon-gl-caud'-5 [-cowda]. Lat. lonrjus, long, and caudn, tail. 



146. Myi-fi-dl-5c'-t5s mi-tra'-tfls. Gr. fivia, a fly, and Skukttjj, a pursuer. — Lat. tnilratiis, 



wearing a turban ; Gr. /uiVpo. a turban or other head-dress, cf. niT6a>, 1 weave. The 

 word is sometimes six-syllabled, but properly reducible to five, the jjJ, from Gr. v7, being 

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



