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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



378. Sayiornis nigricans (Sw.) Bp. b i34. c 26i. R317. 



Black Pewit Flycatcher. 



379. Sayiornis fusca (Gni.) Bd. B 135. c 252. ii 315. 



Pewit Flycatcher; Phocbe-bird. 



380. Contopus borealis (8w.) Bd. b 137. c 253. r 3X8. 



01ive>si<Icd Pewee Flycatcher. 



381. Contopus psrtinax Cab. b — . c 254. k sio. 



Coues's Pewee Flycatcher. 



382. Contopus virens (L.) Cab. b ir.o. c 2r>:y. R 320. 



Pewee Flycatcher; Wood Pewee. 



383. Contopus virens richardsoni (Sw.) Coues. b 138. c 2550. R 321. 



Western Pewee Flycatcher. 



384. Empidonax acadicus (Gm.) Bd. B 143. c 25G. R 324. 



Acadian Flycatcher. 



385. Empidonax trailli (Aud.) Bd. B 140. c 257. R 325a. 



Traill's Flycatcher. 



386. Empidonax trailli pusillus (Bd.) Coues. b 141. c 257o. R 325. 



Little Western Flycatcher. 



the genitive, saiji or saii, or in adjectival form, snymm or sninna ; it ni\ist in tlie latter 

 case be feminine to agree with sayionus. Tiie above emendation of botii gen. • and 

 specific names is respectfully submitted. (See Coues, Bull. Xutt. Club, v, 1880, p. 99.) 



378. S. nig'-rl-cans. Present participle of H///nV(>, 1 am lilaekisli ; nyec, black. 



379. S. fus'-ca. Lat. /hscks, dark, dusky, swarthy. See Pijiilo, No. ."06. 



380. C6n'-t6-pus b6r-6-a'-lIs. Gr. kovtos, in some sense unknown to us, and ttoi/j, foot. — Lat. 



burcdiis, northern ; boreas, tile northwind. — " I'ewee," like " pewit," is an onomatopocon. 



N. B. — Many words ending in -opiis, from the Gr. iroDj and a connecting vowel o, are 

 hiibitually accented on the lengthened penult, and the last syllable is nuide short. But 

 as -pus here stands for Gr. irovs, kiuI the connecting vowel is invariably short, we should 

 throw the accent back to the antepenult, and dwell on the last syllable. Thus, not 

 Coiitu'-jtus, Ila'mat6'-)iU!i, PlutUiro'-]nts, but CoiiI'dpus, llivmu'lO-pua, Pli(il(v'i'!-jius. 



381. C. per'-tl-nax. Lat. /vr/Z/inT, pertinacious, holding fast on to ; from /jic and Jtv/iij-, tenacious, 



from tenco, I hold ; this species closely resembling C. Ijomilis. 



382. C. vir'-ens. See Dmdinca rirens, No. 112. 



383. C. V. rlch'-ard-s5n-i. To Dr. John Richardson, an author of the Fauna Boreali- 



Americana, &c. 

 3":''' Em-pld-5'-nax 5-c5d'-I-cQs. Gr. ^juir/i, genitive f/if'Soi, a small kind of insect, gnat ; and 

 Siva^ or &va^, king. — AcikUcus, Latinized adjective for Acadian ; from Acadia or Acadie. 



N. B. — This species has never been found, and probably does not occur, in the region 

 formerly called Aaulia ; the name is therefore geographically false. The name " Aca- 

 dian Flycatcher," whence Musrlrapn annllcd Gm., no doubt actually refers to Traill's or 

 the Least Flycatcher, the proper name of the present species being i)r()bably /■Empidonax 

 subviridis (Bartr.) Coues. Lat. suhviridis, somewhat green, greenish. 



385. E. trail'-li. To Thomas .Stewart Traill, a Scottish naturalist. He was professor of medi- 



cal jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, and editor of one of the later editions 

 of the " F.ncyclopa'dia Britannica." 



386. E. t. pQ-sil'.ms. See Sitta, No. 00. 



