CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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Myiodioctes pusillus (Wils.) Bp. b 213. c 102. r 125. 



Green Black-capped Flycatching Warbler. 



Myiodioctes pusillus pileolatus (Pall.) Ridg. b — . c i02a. R I25a. 



Pacific Black-capped Flycatching Warbler. 



Myiodioctes canadensis (L.) Aud. b 214, 215. c 103. r 127. 



Canadian Flycatching Warbler. 



Cardellina rubrifrons (Gir.) Scl. b — . c — . R 131. 



Red-fronted Flycatching Warbler. 



Setophaga picta Sw. B218. c io5. R 129. 



Painted Flycatching Warbler. 



Setophaga ruticilla (L.) Sw. b 217. c 104. R 128. 



American Redstart. 



Certhiola bahamensis Reich. 



Bahanian Honey Creeper. 



B 301. C 106. R 159. (!W. I.) 



M. piS-sil'-lCSs. See Sitta, No. 60. 



M. p. pi-lS-6-la'-t0s. Lat. pileuin or pilcolum, Gr. vTKos, a kind of cap, a skull-cap ; pileo- 

 lulus, capped. In late days, pileum has become a technical word in ornithology, meaning 

 tlie top of the head. 



M. can-5-den'-sIs. Latinized from Canada, with the termination -ensis. Canada is said to 

 be the Iroquois word Kanata, a village or collection of huts. 



Car-d5l-ir-n5 rtib-ri-frons. Apparently an arbitrary variation from Lat. cardnelis, a 

 kind of finch, from airdmis, a thistle. — Lat. mh,r, red, and./rons, the forehead. The pro- 

 nunciation of rtihrijhms is in question; everybody says roo'lrJifrOiix ; as it is not a classic 

 word, we can only mark it by analogy with such words as ruhrh-.o, &c. But see above, 

 Leiidricm, No. 120, in favor of nih'iyroiis, as the / here comes before./'and a liquid. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the List ; since discovered by II. W. Ilenshaw in New Me-xico. 



Sg-td'-ph5-g5 pic'-ta. Gr. <7^)i, genitive o-rjTdj, an insect ; and faytw, to cat. The con- 

 necting vowel need not lengthen before p/i, as this is only equivalent in force tof.— 

 Lat. pktiis, painted, pictured, here in the sense of brightly or highly colored ; yj%o, I 

 paint, depict. 



S. rfit-I-cil'-ia. Lat. ri/(//M,s-, reddish ; for the rest see Moturllht, Xo.80. The word is exactly 

 equal to redstart, which is Anglicized from the Germ, gfcthftcit or iKot(}|lcrj, all three words 

 meaning simply redtail. 



Cer-thl'-8-15 ba-h5-men'-sls. Crrthhht is a coined diminutive of Crrthhi, which see, 

 No. 02 ; we usually hear it accented on a long penult, which is certainly vicious.— Ihltti 

 meiisls is Latinized from Bahama. 



In the first ed. of the Check List, this species stands as Cfawohi, corrected in the 

 Appendix. If we were *o use the latter, it would hv JlSn'tld,' not Jldn oh. Cni/iioh is 

 correctly formed as a diminutive from Cnt/d,i. like linmla from llnrn ■ for the general rule, 

 however, in cases when the stem ends in a consonant, we may recall the exquisite lines' 

 attributed to the death-bed of Hadrian ; — 



Animula vagula blandula, 

 Ilospes comesque corporis, 

 Qua." nunc ahibis in loca, 

 Pallidula riglda nudida, 

 Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos ? 



