CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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254. Peucaea cassini (Woodh.^ Bd. b 371. c nobu. r 228. 



Cassia's Summer Finch. 



255. Peucaea nificeps (Cass.) Bd. B 372. c 171. R 230. 



Rufous-crowned Summer Fincli. 



256. Peucaea ruficeps boucardi (Scl.) Ridg. b — . c — . r 230a. 



Boucard's Summer Fincli. 



257. Peucaea carpalis Coiics. B — . c nuu. r 229. 



Bendire's Summer Fincli. 



2b. Amphispiza bilineata (Cass.) Cones. B 355. c 172. R 224. 



Blaclt-throated Fincli. 



259 Amphispiza belli (Cass.) Coues. B 35c. c 173. R 225. 

 Bell's Finch. 



260. Amphispiza belli nevadensis Ridg. b — . c i73a. r 226a. 



Nevada Finch. 



261. Junco hiemalis (L.) Scl. b 354. c 174. r 217. 



Common Snowbird. 



262. Junco hiemalis aikeni Ridg. b — . c i74a. r 21G. 



White-winged Snowbird. 



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 255. 



256. 



257. 



258. 



259. 

 260. 



261. 



262. 



P. cas'-sln-l. To John Cassin, of Philadelpliia. 



P. ru'-n-ceps. Lat. rnfus, reddish, and -cops, a termination denoting tlic head; from 



P. r. bou-car'-di. To Adolphc Boucard, a French naturalist, who collected in Mexico and 

 Central America. 



P. car-pa'-lls. Or. (capirrfs, fruit, berry, grain; also, the wrist; Latinized as cwpus. The 

 derivation supt.osed to he Kdp<po,, I pither, as fruit ; Lat. mr,m, I take, seize. The quasi- 

 Latin carpus IS only use.l as signifying the wrist ; the adjective rarpnlls is an arbitrary 

 form, denoting of or pertaining to the wrist ; airpns and cm-p,tl are common terms in 

 anatomy. The allusion is to the br -lit color on the carpal-joint of the bird's wing. 



Am-phl-spi'-za bl-lln-e-a'-ta. Or. k,i<t>L on both sides, an.l ,r^l(a. a fim^Ii ; in allusion to 

 the dose relation of the genus to those r.i.out it. See }r,h,.ph„, Xo. 212. Lat. biUneala, 

 two-lined ; l,s, twice, an.l linmtus, strijied ; linoa, a line : see Umiria, Xo. 207. 

 This is the l\ms,,i:,i biUmaht of the first ed. of the Check List. 



A. ber-li. To J. G. Bell, of Xew York. 



A. b. nfiv-a-den'-sls. To the Territory of Nevada. It were better written nivadrmk,m 

 i>alin, but IS directly from the Spanish adjective „rrnda, snowv, white as snow ; Lat. 

 mrr».s snowy, from mx, ironitive, mris, snow. The Territory was named for the snow- 

 capped peaks of its Sierras Xevadas. 



Jun^-co I pronounced yooncoj hl-fi-ma'-lls. Lat. ,/»»n,.,. a reed or rush ; cf. jnw,o, I join, 

 .;»"r/,«, joined ; either, reeds growing densely together, or used as witlies to bind with 1 

 — For hlrumlis, see Amrthnm, Xo. 70. 



J. h. ar-k8n-L To Charles E. Aiken, of Colorado, its discoverer. 



This and several other connecting forms of Juno} (Xos. 204, 200, 207) are not in 

 the orig. cd. of the Check List. 



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