CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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205. Leucosticte griseinucha (Brandt) Bd. b 323. c I44a. r 174. 

 Brandt's Rosy Flncb. 



306. Leucosticte arctoa (Pall.) Bp. b 324. c i46. r — . 

 Pallas's Rosy Finch. 



207. ^giothus linaria (L.) Cab. b 320. c 140, i4Ca. r 179. 



Common Red-poll. 



208. ^giothus linaria holboelli (Brehm) Coucs. e — . c — . R i79a. (?) 



Ilolboirs Red-poll. 



209. ^giothus homemanni (Ilolb.) Coues. b 321. c — . R 178. (0.) 



Greenland Mealy Red-poll. 



210. ^giothus exilipes Coues. B — . c 14C6. R I78a. 



American Mealy Red-poll. 



21 1. Linota flavirostris brewsteri (Ridg.) Coues. b — . c 147. R I80. (?) 



Brewster's Linnet. 



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205. L. grls-ei-nQ'-chS. Lat. griseus, gray, and nucha, the nape or scrufE of the neck. Neither 



part of the word is classic ; yriseus is Latinized from sucli a word as seen in Fr. gn's, 

 Ital. (jn'so, English grisly ; and nuclia, a tcclinical word in ornithology, is Latinized from 

 Fr. nuqiie, tlie nape (A. S. cna-p, a knob, knoll), wliieii is tlie same as Gaelic aioc, Welsh 

 cmcc. Nape is thus closely related to neck itself; A. S. hnevca, Dan. nakke, Dutch nak 

 or nek, Germ, nacfeii, &c. 



206. L. arc-t5'-5. Gr. ipitros, a bear; also, the constellation; hence, the north; adjective 



ipKTtfos, same as apKrtKoi, northern, whence Lat. arctous and arcticiis, of same signi- 

 fication. 



207. Aeg-I'-6-thQs li-na'-rI-5. Gr. AtyloOos, given by Cabanis as a proper name : supposably 



derived from 017/1, a goat-skin, or asgis, and riOitixi, to put or place, as if the shield- 

 bearer, like -I'Egisthus. The application is far from being evident. The word is 

 probably only another form of aXyiQoi, the name of an unknown bird, occurring in 

 Aristotle, Hist. i.\. 1, conjectured by some to be this very species. — Lat. linaria; 

 from linum (Gr. Klvov), fla.\ ; the root is seen in many words, as line, linear, linen, lint, 

 linnet, &c. 



208. A. 1. hai'-bo61-li. To Carl v. Ilolboll, a Danish naturalist, chiefly known in ornithology 



for his researches in Greenland. 



Not recognized in the first ed. of the Check List. 



209. A. horn'-6-m5n-nL To Ilornomann, who had to do with Greenland birds. '' 



This species is not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. It is only American inasmuch 

 as it is found in Greenland. It is absolutely confined to that country, and is the bird 

 usually quoted as Grcenlandic " canescens." 



210. A. Sx-H'-l-pSs. Lat. exilis (for exigilis, from exigo), small, slender, &c., and jjcs, foot. See 



Ardetta, No. 607. 



211. Li-n5'-tSL fla-vl-rSs'-trls brews'-t6r-i. See ZmnnVi, above : the word is not classic, being 



directly Latinized from the Fr. linotte, one of the nimiberless words from llniim, linca, 

 &c. — Lat. Jlaviroslris, yellow-billed. — To William Brewster, of Cambridge, Mass., am 

 excellent ornithologist. 



This is questionably North American, and questionably a good species. 



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