CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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387. Empidonax minimus Bd. b 142. c 258. r 326. 



Least Flycatcher. 



388. Empidonax flaviventris Bd. b 144. c 259. r 322. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



389. Empidonax flaviventris difficilis Bd. b i44a. c — . r 323. (?) 



Western Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



390. Empidonax hammondi (Xant.) Bd. B 145. c 200. R 327. 



Ilaminond's Flycatcher. 



391. Empidonax obscurus (Sw.) Bd. b 140. c 261. R 328. 



Wright's Flycatcher. 



392. Mitrephorus fulvifrons pallesoens Coues. B — . c 262. R 329a. 



BufT-breasted Flycatcher. 



393. Ornithium imberbe Scl. B — . c — . R33i. 



Beardless Flycatcher. 



394. Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus (Scl,) Cones, B 147. c 203, R 330. 



Mexican Vermilion Flycatcher. 



395. Nyctidromus albicollis (Gm.) Biirm. B — . c — . R 350. 



Pauraque, 



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387. E, mln'-I-miSs, Lat. minimus, least, smallest, superlative degree of parvus, little. 



388. E. fla-vl-ven'-trls. Lat. ./7(ici/s, yellow; ivn/nV, pertaining to the belly, render, belly ; prob- 



ably digammated from Gr. ivrtpov, the entrails. 



339. E, f. dif-fl'-cl-lls. Lat. difficilis, difficult, not facile ; dis-facilis, not easily do-able ; facio, I 

 do; like wjilis, active, or utilis, useful, from wjo and utor. It is applied to the bird 

 as the French would call a person difficile, that is, hard to get at, manage, understand, 

 impracticable; the subspecies not being readily distinguished from E.Jlaciventris. 



390. E. h5m'-m6nd-i. To Dr. W. A. Ilanunond, sometime Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 



391. E. ob-scu'-rfls. See .Uo/o/Zoha-, Xo. ,'>14. — To C, Wright, the discoverer. Swainson's bird 



is very uncertain, and our species might be called E. wrighti. 



392. Mi-tre'-ph6r-fls fijl'-vl-frons pal-lSs'-cSns. Gr. nirpa. or ^irpr). a mitre or other head- 



dress, and <pop6s, bearing, from (pipa, same as Lat. fuo, I bear. We believe either 

 viitrcpliorits or mitropJtnnis to be admissible; the former has ciirreticv, tliough tlie latter 

 maybe preferable. — Lat. fulrus, yellowish, fulvous, iwil fnws, foreliead. — Lat. patlcs- 

 ceris, somewhat pale, from jKillisrn, I grow pale ; jhiIIio, of same meaning. The allusion 

 is to tlie pale coloration in comparison with tlie stock-form /((/r/'/iwi.s-. [See Index, p. 1.'37.] 



393. Or-nith'-I-Qm im-ber'-b6. Gr. oppldiav, a little bird ; diminutive of ipvn, a bird. — Lat. 



imlicrhc, beardless, from in, negation, and Inilui, beard. The genus is commonly written 

 Ornilhion, but it is customary to change -ov of the Greek into -um in Latin. 



Not in the orig, eil. ; since discovered in Te.xas by G. B. Sennett. Sec Coues, The 

 Country, i, p. 184, July 13, 1878. 



394. Py-rO-c6ph'-5-lQs rflb-Tn'-6-tSs mex-T-c5'-nfls. Gr. irvp, genitive itvp6s, fire, Ki<t>a\Ti, 



head. — Lat. ndiiiinis (not classic), equivalent to rubeiis, ruby-colored, rose-red. 



395. Nyc-tl'-drfi-mt5s al-bl-cSl'-lIs. Gr. vi^, genitive i/iKcrrfs, night, and Sp6u.o!. act of running: 



in iilhision to the nocturnal activity of the bird. See Ammodntmus, Xo. SoB. — Lat. nlbiis, 

 white, and collis, neck. 



Xot in the orig, ed. ; since discovered in Texas by G. B. Sennett, and J. C. Merrill. 



