CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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306. Pipilo fliscus mesoleucus (Bd.) Ridg. b 397. c 200. R 240. 



Brown Towhee Bunting; Cuiion Bunting. 



307. Pipilo ftiscus albigula (Bd.) Coues. B — . c 20C0. r 240a. 



IVblte-throated Towheo Bunting. 



308. Pipilo fiiscus crissalis (Vig.) Coues. B 396. c 2066. R 2406. 



Crlssal Towhee Bunting. 



309. Pipilo aberti Bd. b 395. c 207. R 241. 



Abort's Towhee Bunting. 



310. Pipilo Chlonirus (Towns.) Bd. B 398. C 208. R 239. 



Green-tailed Towlieo Bunting. 



311. Embernagra rufovirgata Lawr. b 373. c 209. r 236. 



Green Finch. 



312. Dolichonyx oryzivorus (L.) Sw. b 399. c 210. r 257. 



Bobolink; Reed-bird; Rice-bird. 



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308. P. fus'-ciSs m£s-fi-leQ'-ciis. Lat./iMcis, fuscous, dark, dusky, likcyi/wis; both allied to 



Gr. optpds, of same meaning, from 6p(f>i ■f), night or darkness '. — Gr. fiiaoi, middle, \fvK6s, 

 wliitc; in allusion to the color of the middle under parts. This word is derived from 

 Afi/fTo-oi or yKaixKTw, I shine ; this from ay\aia, splendor, the name of one of the Muses. 



This is given as P. ftiscus in the orig. ed. ; but the bird of Arizona is said to be dis- 

 tinguishable from the Mexican stock species. 



307. P. f. ai-bl'-gfl-ia. [Not albii/cw'ler.] Lat. alhiis, white; gula, throat. This is one of num- 

 berless cases where the termination of the word is in question. AUiigulu may be taken 

 as a feminhie noun, and left in this form, whatever the gender of the word with which 

 it is associated ; or it may be considered an adjective in -us, -a, -urn, and made masculine 

 to agree with P./itsnis. There is ample authority and precedent for the latter course, 

 which our taste disinclines us to take. Knglish affords a parallel latitude of construc- 

 tion, as when we say indifferently "yellow-rump warbler "or "yellow-rumped warbler," 

 " Carolina chickadee " or " Carolinian chickadee." A better form than either altn'i/ithis 

 or albifjuhi would be (Mujiilmis. 



303. P. f. cris-sa'-lls. Late Lat. nissalis, pertaining to the crissum, or under-tail coverts, which 

 in this bird are highly colored. There arc no such classic words, thej- having been in- 

 vented by llliger in 1811: but. there is a verb crisso, expressing a certain action of the parts. 



309. P. 5'-bert-i. To Lieutenant .J. W. Abert, of the U. S. A n- , who discovered it. 



310. P. chlo-ru'-riis. Gr. x^aipc^j, green, from x^fia, green grass; oZpa, tail. 



311. Em-ber-na'-grS ru-fd-vir-ga'-t5. EmlHrmuim is a villanous word, concocted by Lesson 



out of Emhcrha and Tanw/ra. Euihrrizn, a bunting, is a word the derivation of which 

 is not classic. It is said, doubtless correctly, to be Latinized from the O. II. G. Kmhritz: 

 "Charleton (1008) has Emliri/:a " CVVharton's MS.) ; and we may add that there were 

 various other forms of the word before it settled into the present one. — There are Latin 

 words Tnniiger and Tmuujra ; but these are geographical proper names, having nothing 

 to do with the present case. Tamjam or TamKjra is a South American vernacular 

 word. — Lat. rnfiis, rufous, reddish, and rirrjatns, literally, made of twigs; from vin/a, a 

 rod, switch, the application being the stripes with which the bird is marked. Commonly 

 written rufivinjota : see f.ojthoiih(ims. No. 42. 



312. D61-Tch'-6-nyx 6-ry-zI'-v6-riSs. Gr. 8oAix<^s, long, and it^uf, a nail, claw, talon. The gender 



is in question ; but the Greek uw^, Lat. oniix, is masculine, though Latin words in -yx are 

 usually feminine. The usual pronunciation is dolicho'nyx: but see Pipilo, No. 305. Gr. 

 Spu(a, or Lat. oiyza, rice, and voro, I devour. 



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