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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



197. Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus (Cab.) Ridg. b — . c i4ia. u i70a. 



Rose-breasted Finch. 



198. Loxia leucoptera Gm. b aio. c 142. r 173. 



Wblte-wlnged Crossbill. 



199. Loxia curvirostra americana (Wils.) Coues. b ois. c 143. r 172. 



Common American Crossbill. 



200. Loxia curvirostra mexicana (Strickl.) Coues. b — . c i43o. r 172a. 



Mexican Crossbill. 



201. Leucosticte atrata Ridg. b — . c — . r 170. 



Rldgway^s Rosy Fincb. 



202. Leucosticte australis Allen, b — . c — . r 177. 



Allen's Rosy Finch. 



203. Leucosticte tephrocotis Sw. b 322. c 144. r 175. 



Swainson's Rosy Finch. 



204. Leucosticte tephrocotis litoralis (Bd.) Coues. B — . c — R nsa. 



Baird's Rosy Finch. 



197. C. f. rh6-d6-c5l'-pfis. Gr. p6Sov, the rose, and K6\iros, the breast; in allusion to tlie rose- 



red color of that part. 



The form €./. hnmonhous, given in the orig. ed. of the Check List, is the Mexican 

 race ; the above should replace No. 141a. 



198. Lox'-I-5 leQ-c5p'-te-rS. Gr. Aortas, an epithet of Apollo, whose oracles were sometimes 



obscure or equivocal; from Aofdr, oblique, devious, deviating from a straiglit line; very 

 pertinent to the Crossbill. — Ur. KivK6s, wiiite, and irrtp6v, wing. 



199. L. cQr-vT-r5s'-tr5. Lat. chh-hs, curved ; and i-os<n(Hi, bill. In this and numberless similar 



cases of a noun compounded with an antecedent a<ljective, tiie whole word is treated as 

 an adjective, capable of inflection according to gender. Thus cnrrimstra is as if curviros- 

 ter or curciioslr-us, -a, -iim. So we even find lontjicwul-us, -<i, -inn, like atiricoin-ux, -a, -urn, 

 and the Vergilian centiman-us, -a, -urn. In such a case as the present, the adjectival form 

 curvlroslris {like -ventris) might be more elegant. But ciirriiustra has the sanction of 

 several centuries' use as a noun, having apparently been invented as a Latin synonym 

 of Luxki; it is imt, however, classic. Other synonyms are crucirostra, crucijWa, cruciata; 

 Fr. Bcc-croisiT, Germ. JircutM'il)nabcl, &o. 



200. L. c. mex-I-ca'-n5. Lat. mexicana, of Mexico. Sec Sialia, No. 28. 



201. Leu-co-stic'-te a-tra'-ta. Gr. Aturcrfr, white, and o-tikt^, variegated; from (rrlCa, I punc- 



ture, brand, or mark. — Lat. almta, blackened ; a participial adjective, from an obsolete 

 or rather hypotiictical verb atro. 



Not in the orig. od. of the Check List ; described from Colorado by Ridgway, Amer. 

 Sportsm., iv. No. 10, p. 241, July 18, 1874. 



202. L. aus-tra'-lls. Lat. australis, southern ; from attster, the south wind, hot and dry ; this 



from Gr. aSu, I dry up or parch. 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List, as then not supposed valid. 



203. L. t5ph-r6-co'-tIs. Gr. rt^p6s, gray, ashy, from riippa, ashes ; and oZs, genitive iirds, the 



ear ; the connective consonant c being introduced for euphony. 



204. L. t. li-tfir-a'-lls. Lat. Utoralia, littoral ; from litus, the shore, of sea, lake, or river. The 



word is commonly written litloralis, but preferably as above. 



Not in the first ed. of the Check List, as not then supposed to be valid. 



