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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



298. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata Bp. b 38o. c 202. r 243. 



Texas Cardinal Grosbeak. 



299. Cardinalis virginiana Bp. b 300. c 203. r 242. 



Cardinal Grosbealc; Virginia Redbird. 



300. Cardinalis virginiana ignea (Bd.) Cones, b — . c 203rt. n 242a. 



Fiery-red Cardinal Grosbeali. 



301. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (L.) V. b 391. c 204. r 237. 



Towliee Bunting; Cliewinlc. 



302. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni Cones, b — . c 204a. r 2?un. 



White-eyed Towhee Bunting. 



303. Pipilo maculatus oregonus (Bell) Cones, b 392. c 205. r 2;;86. 



Oregon Towhee Bunting. 



304. Pipilo maculatus arcticus (Sw.) Coues. b 3!)3. c 205a. r 238. 



Arctic Towhee Bunting. 



305. Pipilo maculatus megalonyx (Bd.) Couos. b 394. c 2056. r 238a. 



Spurred Towhee Bunting. 



S98. P}rr-rhiS-15x'-T-S sIn-Q-a'-t5. A forcible combination of Pijrrhula and Lo.rin : sec these 

 words, Nos. 100 and 100 ; or may be said to be more properly conipoinulod of pj/nhim, 

 itv^(>os, fiery-red, and Kollas; in wliicli event, it siiould be written pijrrhutoxM. — Lat. siima- 

 tiis, bent, bowed, curved, as the bill of the bird is; from siniio, the verb; slims, the noun, 

 a curve, bending, bay. 



290. Car-dln-a'-lls vlr-gln-l-a'-n5. Lat. cardinalis, pertaining to a door-hinge : canlo, genitive 

 cardiiils, a door-hinge ; hence, that upon wliicli something turns or depends ; as, cardinal 

 points of the compass ; hence, any important thing or person ; applied with obvious sig- 

 nification to the chief officials of the I'ope. These ecclesiastical dignitaries wear red ; 

 hence the phrase "cardinal-red." The term is ajjplied to the bird as descriptive of its 

 rich red color. As a Latin word, cardinalis is only an adjective; used substantively, its 

 gender is either masculine or feminine. We take the latter, because most words ending in 

 IS- are feminine. — Lat. virginiana, of Virginia, euphemistically named for Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Henry VIII. 



300. C. V. ig'-n6-S. Lat. igneus, fiery, flaming ; said of color as well as of other properties ; 



iijnis, fire. 



301. Pi'-pH-S 6-rjrth-r8ph-th51'-miSs. Vieillot, in forming tlie word, wrote both pipilo and 



pipillo. It is a Latin verb, meaning, like/)//)/o, I pip, peep, chirp. Notice the accentua- 

 tion and quantity of the vowels. — Gr. 4pv0p6s, red or reddish; ipdBw, I redden ; oipOaX- 

 Ii6s, the eye, from iirroiiai, a verb obsolete in the present, or opiui, I see ; we find both 

 words in "ophthalmic," " optic." The species is red-eyed. — The curious Knglish words 

 " towhee " and " chewink " are onomatopecic : that is, coined to imitate the sound of 

 the bird's voice. 



P. e. 51'-l6n-i. To Joel Asaph Allen, of Cambridge, Mass., one of the leading naturalists 

 of the United States. 



P. m5-cQl-5'-tfls 6r-6-g5'-niSs. Lat. winrH/a/us, spotted ; mncH/a, a spot. — To the Oregon 

 River. Quantity of the penult in q\iestion, perhaps bettor ore'gdnus. 

 The stock species, P. maculatus, is not North American. 



P. m. arc'-tl-c5. See Slalia, No. 20. 



P. m. m6-gSl'-fi-n"x. Gr. /itydKri (feminine of fityas), large, great, and 6vu^, Lat. oni/x, a 

 nail, claw, talon. The word is connnonly accented on a long penult; a practice perhaps 

 defensible on the ground that niegalS-Onyx = megalonyx. 



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