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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



459. Colaptes mexicanus Sw. b 98. c 3i4. ~ 378a. 



Re(l-shafte<l Woodpecker. 



460. Conurus carolinensis (L,) Kuhl. b C3. c 315. r 392. 



Carolina Parrot; Paroquet. 



461. Aluco flammeus pratincola (Bp.) Coucs. b 47. c 3ic. R 394. 



American Barn Owi. 



462. Bubo virginianus (Gni.) Bp. B 48. c 317. R 405. 



Great Horned Owl. 



463. Bubo virginianus arcticus (Sw.) Cass. B — . c 3i7a. r 405a, 4056. 



Arctic Horned Owl. 



464. Bubo virginianus pacificus Cass. B — . c 3176. 11 405c. 



Paciflc Horned Owl. 



459. 

 460. 



461. 



46£ 



4G3. 

 464. 



C. mex-I-ca'nfls. To Mexico. 



C5-nu-rQs c5-r6-lIn-€n'-sTs. Or. uSiuos, Lat. conns, a cone, pine-cone, wlienco our word 

 for a figure of tliat kind ; oZpa, tiiil ; in allusion to flic wcdfrcd or cuiu'ato tail. 



Note. — The noniiMiclaturo of our owls, Nos. 401-4^iy, must bo considered still 

 unsettled in sevcriil instances, though we have endiavoreil to ai)i)roxiinate toward a 

 fi.\ed terminology in this diflieult group, where the species and subspecies are not readily 

 determined, and where authors have bandied about the generic and specific names so 

 indiscriminately as to produce great confusion. The names here jjrovisionally adopted 

 are in the main according to results reached by Mr, Uidgway, who has given special 

 attention to these birds. 



Al-ii'-co flam'-mfi-fls prat-in'-c6-15. The meaning, of Aluco we do not know, further than 

 tliat it has long been used for some kind of owl ; perhaps related to f\(6s, wliich occurs 

 in Aristotle as the name of some owl, and is cnunierated by Hrisson among the syno- 

 nyms of the European barn owl. Numberless names of owls in very many languages 

 are doubtless nv e nearly related than their diverse orthography would show at first 

 sight, and mostly appear to be ononi.iiopa'ic, in iiuitntion of the hooting, howling cries 

 of these inauspicious birds of the night ; Kng. oirl, oirlil, IwirUt; A, S. iil, cul, iilc ; Dutch, 

 till; Dan. w/le ; Sw. »<j(jUi ; Germ, fiilf; Fr. luilntlr ; Ital. alorlio (compare aliico] ; Sansk. 

 tiliika, &c. — Jjai.Jliiiiimciis, flaming, fiery -red ; Jhimnut (flaij-imt), a ilame, l)laze ; t' xit 

 is seen in.//i»yrant,.//(i7itious, de/Zoyrati' ; ,//".'/'"i I "iH'i> uj), am indanied; and nuin^ ..n- 

 dred W(n'ds. The allusion, rather strong, is to \\w Jhuirnnt colors uf this species in com- 

 parison with most owls. — Lat. jmitliiroln, an inhabitant of fields; }tralitm, a meadow, 

 iiiculd, an inhabitant {in and colo, I cultivate). 



This stands as Sirij-Jlanniica amrricnim in the orig. ed., and Ridgway has A.flnmmrn 

 americana; but jirnliiinila Bp. (18!J8) antedates (/Hif-nrKHfi And. (18!!!)); ami, on the giii- 

 cric nomenclature of owls, especially on the type of Slrix L., see Newton, Yarr. Br. B., 

 4th od., i, p. 150, and Ibis, ;]d ser., vi, 1870, p. Oi. 



BQ'-bo v!r-gln-T-a'-nQs. Lat. Imlm, the horned owl ; perhaps related to huhiiliis or hidmlii/i ; 

 Ikis, Gr. /3oCs, a bull, horned cattle; there is a similar Greek word Pvas, for a horned owl. 

 So, also, the verb Imho or biihalo, to low, hoot ; ihe w(^rd for the bittern, hiilor, liutminis 

 {Ims, laiirus), and otlierg, are relateil, all being onoinatopaMc, with reference to the low- 

 ing or bellowing of cattle. — Vln/iiiiiiiiiin, see Canliiiiilis, No. 2fl!). 



B. V. arc'-tl-cfls. See Sialia, No. 2!). 



B. V. p3-cI'-n-cQs. Lat. im-i/iri(s, pacific, peaceable, peace-making ; pax, i)cacc, faclo, I do, 

 make ; " the stilly sea." The reference is to the bnbitat of the bird. 



We retair< the three forms of liiiho as given in the orig. ed. Mr. Ridgway, after dis- 

 missing Mr. Cassin's vat. i>u:(/kua, has four: B. v., and U. v. arcticus, as we have them; 



