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CHECK LIST OF NOllTH AMERICAN BIliDS. 



327. Icterus buUocki (Sw.) Bp. B 4io. c 217. u 272. 



Biillock^s Oriole. 



328. Icterus cucullatus Sw. n 413. c 218. u 200. 



Iloodod Oriole. 



329. Icterus parisiorum Bp. n 411. r 2i!>. n scs. 



Stott'a Oriole. 



330. Icterus melanocephalus auduboni (Gir.) Coucs. n 400. c 220. R 20(5. 



Autluboirs Ulaeli-lioiuicd Oriole. 



331. Scolecophagus ferrugineus (Gm.) Sw. b 417. c 221. R 273. 



Kusty Cirackle. 



332. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Wagl.) Cab. b 418. c 222. r 274. 



I)lue-liea<le<l Grarkle. 



333. Quiscalus macrurus Sw. n 419. c 223. r 275. 



Great-tailed Crow lllackliird. 



327. I bfil'-18cl{-I. To William Bullock, sometime a collector in Mexico, and proprietor of a 



famous museum in Lon(lr)n. 



328. I. cfl-cul-la'-tfls. T.at. ruaillatux, liooded ; cuculh, a kind of hood or cowl fastened to a gnr- 



nunt, to be drawn over the head. 



329. I. p5r-is-I-5'-rtSn. Lat. I'lirinlorum, of flie Parisians. Tlie Parluli were a people of Gaul, 



settled on the river Svuoms, now the Seine; their chief city, LitUlin, called also Liilttia 

 I'arisiiirum and I'wisii, is now I'aris. There is no ap])lieal>ility of the name to the bird : 

 Bonaparte probably so called it from national vanity, or because he found a specimen 

 in a museum in Paris. The name is conmionly but wrongly written }inil.sonim. 



330. I. inSl-5n-6-ceph'-51-Qs aad'-0-b6n-i. Ur. /utAos, feminine /wtAoii/o, black; and (cKpoAi^, 



head. — To J. J. Audubon. 



331. Sc5-le-ca'-ph5-giS3 f5r-ra-gIn'-6-0s. Gr. trKui\VKo<l>dyos, a, worm-oaicr; (r»c(«\r){, genitive 



(tkuJAtjkos, a worm, and <pdyu, I eat. It is also a F.atiii word, .sro/cj-, worm. — Lat./Jcm/i- 

 7i('iif!, rusty-red, color of iron rust; from /inw/o, iron-rust; firrum, iron. — The curious Kng- 

 lish word ijravkh' or qriikle is nngllci/ed from Lat. (jmcuhis or i/rnrniliis, a very uncertain 

 bird, by some supposed to be the jackdaw, by others the corTnorant or sea-crow ; and 

 the I^atin word itself is supposed to be merely in imitation of a hoarse croak, gm, gra. 

 See what is said under QnerqitPtluht, No. 714. 



333. S. cy-5n-6-c6ph'-51-iSs. Gr. xiavos, or Lat. njaiinis, blue ; and Kfi^oA^, head. 



333. Quis'-c5-lfis mac-ru'-rfis. Unde (Icriraliir gui.iniliis ! AVe have no proof whence it comes 

 or what it means: it varies in form, as qiiiscala, quiscnia. Mr. W. C. Avery asks: "Is 

 f/ul.imlus an onomatopn-on ? I can find no Latin or Greek word like it," Mr. II. T. 

 Wharton observes: " Quisrnliis seems a native name; if it is, the termination -h.? only 

 obscures its origin without Latinizing it." Professor A. Newton remarks at greater 

 length : " Qiiisraliis was doubtless taken by Vieillbt from the Gmcula quisada o* Linnieus 

 (S. N., ed. 10, p. 100). I cannot find this word or any thing like it in any older author; 

 but I have an instinctive conviction that it must occur somewhere ; for, aa far as my 

 studies of Linna'us's work go, they show me that he did not invent names. From his 

 printing the word in both eds. (10th and 12th) with a capital initial letter, it is obvious 

 that he regarded it as a substantive, and I should think he must have found it in some 

 book of travels as the local name of a bird. The word seems to me Spanish or quasi- 

 Spanish — say Creole — and the regular Castilian qiiisquilla, which dictionaries explain 

 to bo a trifling dispute, suggests a meaning, especially when one reads of the noisy and 

 fussy bickerings of your Boat-tails." If, as seems highly probable, we arc here on the 



