CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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636. Pseudogryphus califomianus (Slmw) Kidg-. « 2. c 364. u 453. 



Californiaii Vulture. 



537. Cathartes aura (L.) 111. B 1. c 305. u 404. 



Turkey Duzzurd. 



533. Catharista atrata (IJartr.) Loss, b 3, c 3C6. R 456. 



C'urrluii Crow. 



539. Columba fasciata Say. B 445. c. .'!C". 11450. 



liiind-tiiiloil Piju;oon. 



540. Columba erythrina Licht. B 44c. c 308. R 457. 



Rod-billRcl PiRoon. 



541. Columba leucocephala L. B 447. 309. R 458. 



Wliite-crowncd Pigeon. 



542. Engyptila albifrons (Bp.) Cones. B — . c — . R 463. 



Whitc-frontod Pigeon. 



536. Pseu-dO-gry'-phQs cal-l-f5r-nl-a'-nfls. fir. ifeCSoi. false, from <^(6t(D, I deceive, and Lat. 



</ri//ihi(s, for i/>\i/i>s, gi'uitivi' (jri/i>lii's, ii griftin, a fabulous liinl ; I'loiii (Jr. ypiKp, the saiiic, 

 from ypvTToi, lu'iit, iiook-iiosed. The word is hadly fornioil in two laiijiuam's : iiad better 

 liave been J'nciuloi/njiis. Grijjihiiii is a name early traiisferrid by orniihoh)},'ists from h» 

 fabulous prototyije to tiie eond.ir of the Andes ; and Mr. Ridgway made J'seudnyrij/ihus 

 from the reseniblanee of the Californian vulture to tlio latter. 



Tins stands as Cathartes cut. in the orig. ed. See Hidg., Bull. Nutt. Club, v, 1880, 

 p. 70. 



537. Cath-ar'-tes au'-r5 [ow-rali, not or-ahl. Or. KaOaprris, a purifier, from KaBalpu, I cleanse, 



purify, pm'ije ; from the good olHces of the binl as a scavenger in warm countries. — 

 Aura is a name applied to this bird by the olilest writers who speak of it, and, in all its 

 various forms, as rendered by l)e Laet and others who treat of tropical American 

 Callidrtidir, it is of South American or Me.\icau origin, and apparently related to 

 uruliu or oiinilni. It early crystalli;;ed in its present orthography, and was soon Latinized, 

 or at least declined as a Latin word; as, lur (inruriim, or rcjina aurarum (genitive [)lural), 

 "king of the vultures." That it has any connection with Lat. aura, Gr. oiJpa, air, 

 atmosphere, may well be doubted. 



538. Cath-ar-is'-ta a-tra'-t5. Badly framed from Kadapi^ai, only another form of Kadaipw, of 



same meaning; see No. 5:37. — Lat. r(/;((^(, ])artieipial adjective, blackened ; (i/tr, black. 

 This stands as Catlmrtes alratus in the orig. ed. See Ridg., Bull. Nutt. Club, v, 1880, 

 p. 80. 



539. C61-um'-ba fas-cl-a'-ta. Lat. columba, a pigeon; etymology unknown. — See Chaiuwa, 



540. C. 6-ryth-ri'-na. Lat. erythrina. Or. fpvGpiiios, reddish; from epvOp6s, red. 



Tliis is C. Jlarirostris of the orig. ed. As the liill is not at all yellow, another name is 

 desirable. See Uidg., Pr. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, p. 0. 



541. C. Ieij-c6-c6ph'-a-15. Gr. AcukcJs. white, and /c6(>)aA»^ head. 



542. En-gyp'-tl-ia al'-bl-fr5ns. Gr. iyy^s, narrow, slender, contracted, and ttAi'Aoi', a feather; 



from the attenuated outer primaries. — Lat. ulhus, white ; frms, foreliead. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Te.xas by G. B. Sennett. See Coues, Bull. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, p. 48, and Bull. Nutt. Club, v, 1880, p. 100; Ridg., I'r. 

 Kat. Mus , i, 1878, p. 158. 



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