CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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551. Stamcenas cyanoccphalus (L.) Bp. b 455. c 377. R 468. 



Blue-headed Pigeon. 



552. Ortalis vetula maccalli (Bd.) b 4..g. c 378. u 4C9. 



Texan Guau. 



553. Meleagris gallipavo L. b 458. c 379. r 470. 



Domestic Turlcey ; Mexican Turliey. 



554. Meleagris gallipavo americana (Bartr.) Coues. b 457. C 379a. r 470a. 



Cktmmon Wild Turltey of tlie United States. 



555. Canace canadensis (L.) Bp, b 400. c 380. r 472. 



Canada Grouse ; Spruce Partridge. 



558. Canace canadensis ftanklini (Doiigl.) Coucs. b 4Ci. c 380a. r 472a. 



FraniUin's Spruce Partridge. 



557. Canace obscura (Say) Bp. b 459. c 38i. r 471. 



Dusicy Grouse. 



558. Canace obscura richardsoni (Dougl.) Coues. b — . c 38ia. r 4716. 



Richardson's Duslty Grouse. 



' ? (probably Italian ; Agassiz gives 



651. Star-noE'-nSs cy-5n-8-c6ph'-5-liSs. From — 



Slarna as a proper name), and Gr. oiVoj, Lat. lenas, tlie vine : also, a kind of pigeon ; oenus 

 seems to liave been transferred to the pigeon, as ananihe was to some other bird ; see 

 Saxlcola, No. 20. The olvds of Aristotle is Cdamba livia L. — Gr. K\jaLv6%, ci/anus, blue, 

 and Kc0aA^, head. 



653. Or'-tai-Is vCt'-ii-ia m5c cai'-li. Gr. ofnaKls, a pullet, a kind of quail. This word 

 was universally written ortitlida, until Mr. Wharton showed that the way Merreni, 

 writing Latin, constructed the sentence in which the word first occurs made it the accu- 

 sative case; arguing hence that Mcrrem meant to found a genus oiinlis, not ortalidn. 

 See Ibis, October, 1870, p. 450. The Hev. Mr. Avery's MS. in our possession makes 

 the same correction, though without comment. — Lat. vetula, a little old woman ; derisive 

 diminutive from vctiis, old, veteran ; digammatcd from Gr. (ros, a year. — To General 

 George A. McCall, U. S. Army. 



653, M8l-«-ag'-rIs gal-ll-p5'-v5. Gr. fxtKtaypli, Lat. meleatjris, a gninca-lien ; literally, a fleld- 

 tender, farmer; from fit\(t, relating to the care of a thing, and &ypos. a field. The word not 

 transferred from the African A'limidd to the American Turkey until near the middle of 

 the ICth century, and occasionally confounded for many years ofler that. Milciuier 

 or Vl(Ktayp6i was a my tiiical person who suffered a cruel fate : his sisters, the Mchmjrides, 

 who bitterly lamented his death, were clianged into guinea-hens ; the profusely-spotted 

 plumage of which gives evidence of the tears they shed for him. — Lat. iiallipavo, usually 

 written ijnUoiwvo, a very late combination of i/nllus, a cock, and /la/o, a pea-fowl, bird of 

 Juno ; the latter word from the Gr. raios or raus or raaii', a pea-fowl. 



554. M. g. im-Sr-I-cS'-nS. Of America. 



555. CSn'-Si-cS ci-n&-dSn'-sIs, CVindrc, a proper name ; she lived in incest with her brother; 



application not obvious, unless referring in a general way to the polygamy of gallina- 

 ceous birds. 



This and following species are given as Tctrao in the orig. ed. ;' but may be properly 

 separated generically from Tdnw unyiallus. 

 558. C, c. frink'-lln-i. To Sir John Franklin, of Arctic fame and sorrow, 



557. C, Sb-scQ'-rQs. Lat. obsciims, obscure, i. e., dark-colored. 



558. C. o. rlch'-ard-sfln-I. To Sir John Kichardson, often already mentioned 'n this List, 



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