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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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410. Amazilia fascocaudata (Fras.) Elliot, b. — . c — . r 346. 

 Dusky-talled Ilummlng-blrd. 



420. Amazilia cerviniventris Gld. b — . c — . R 346. 



BufT-bollled Ilumnilng-bird. 



421. lache latirostris (Sw.) Elliot, b — . c — . r 348. 



Circe Ilumming-blrd. 



422. Trogon ambiguus Gld. B g5. c 284. R 384. (!M) 



Copper-tailed Trogon. 



423. Ceryle alcyon (L.) Boio. b 117. c 286. R 382. 



Belted Kingflslier. 



424. Ceryle americana cabanisi (Reich.) Coues. b 118. c 287. R 383. 



Texas Kingflslier. 



425. Crotophaga ani L. b 66, 67. c 288. R 389. 



Biacli Ani. 



419. Am-5-zTr-I-5 fus-c8-caQd-a'-t5. The word awnjiVi'd is apparently Latinized from Lesson's 



word umazill, used in tlio plural form ainazilis for a group of hunnners. We do not know 

 what it mcaii3. — Lai. fuscus, dark, and aindnla, tailed; cauJa, tail. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by J. C. Merrill. This has been 

 called Piirrhophivna rirj/hri in papers relating to the Texas specimens. Sec Merrill, Bull. 

 Nutt. Club, i, 1870, p. 88, and Kidg., Pr. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, p. 147. 



420. A. c5r-vi-nl-ven'-trls. Lat. cervlnus, relating to a deer, cervus ; and ventris, pertaining to 



the belly, renter. The allusion is to theyafrn-colored under parts. 



Not in the orig. cd. ; since discovered in Texas by J. C. Merrill. See Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, ii, 1877, p. 20, and Pr. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, p. 148. 



421. I'-a-chS la-tl-r5s'-trls. Gr. lax^, a battle-cry ; also a proper name, whence derived. — Lat. 



latirostris, broad-billed ; Intiis, wide, like Gr. itXotuj, of same meaning; and rostrum, beak. 

 Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List; since discovered in Arizona by 11. W. 

 Ilenshaw. See Anier. Sportsm., Feb. 20, 1875. 



422. Tro'-gon am-bl'-gQ-iSs. Gr. rpiiyuv, a gnawer, rodent, from rpiiyu, I gnaw, eat away, 



corrode ; from the stout, dentate bill ; see Tro'jlodijtcs, No. 74. The word was applied by 

 Moehring in 1752 to the Brazilian Trogon, called curncni by the natives, and made generic 

 by Brisson in 1700. — Lat. «hi^/(/»»,s, ambiguous, equivocal, of more than one meaning, 

 in a double sense; hence, doubtful, uncertain; from amho, both, on two sides, and ayo, 

 to act or do. Ambiguity is literally a double-dealing, " with double sense deluiling; " 

 compare Fr. do-.-hle entnidre, and such homely expressions as " back and fill," " blow hot 

 and cold," "on the fence," " hedge" (to bet on both sides). It was badly applied to this 

 line species when considered doubtfully distinct from T. vKxicmms. 



Tliis stands as T. nwricaniis in the orig. ed. For its actual occurrence in Texas, sec 

 Pr. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, p. 118. 



423. Ce'-rj^-le aV-cy-on. Gr. K'fipvXos, a kingfisher. — Gr. a^Kvtiv, Lat. h(dci/(m or (dryon, a 



kingflslier. 'AAkuJvt; or Alcyone was a mythical character, daughter of ^Eolus, fiibled to 

 have been transformed into a kingfisher when, out of love for her shipwrecked husband 

 Ceyx, she threw herself into the sea. The kingfisher was also believed to nest on the 

 water, at a time the waves were stilled ; hence the term " halcyon days." 



424. C. 5m-6r-I-ca'-na c5b-an'-Is-i. To Dr. .lean Cabanis, long time one of the leaders of 



German ornithology, and editor of the Journal fiir Ornithologie. 



425. Crd-to'-pha-gl a'-nL Gr. Kporiii', a bug, tick, plant-louse ; and <^o-yoi, f rom </)o70;uai, I cat. 





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