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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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559. Canace obscura fuliginosa Ridg. b — . c 3816. r 47ia. 



Fuliginous Dnslty Grouse. 



560. Centrocercus urophasianus (Bp.) Sw. b 462. c 382. r 479. 



Sage-cock; Cock-of-tbe«Plaln8. 



561. Pedioecetes phasianellus (L.) Elliot, b — . c 383. ii 478. 



Northern Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



562. Pedioecetes phasianellur columbianus (Ord) Coues. b 403. c 383a. R478a> 



Common Sharp-tailed Grouse; Prairie Hen of tlie Northwest. 



563. Cupidonia cupido (L.) Bd. b 464. c 384. r 477. 



Pinnated Grouse; Prairie Hen. 



564. Cupidonia cupido pallidicincta Ridg. b — . c 384a. r 477a. 



Pale Pinnated Grouse. 



666. Bonasa umbella (L.) Steph. B 465. c 385. R 473, 



Ruffed Grouse ; " Theasant ^' in the Middle and Southern States. 





659. 

 560. 



661. 



562. 

 563. 



564. 

 665. 



C. o. fQ-li-gIn-6'-s5. Lat., post-classic, /u/Z'/wosa, of a dark sooty color; fd'ujo, soot; 

 fiilica, or fidix, a coot ; so called from its color. 



CSn-trfl-cer'-ciSs u-r6-pha-sl-a'-nfls. Gr. Kturpov, a spine, and KtpKos, tail; " sliarp- 

 tailfd." — Gr. oipa, tail, and <pcurtav6s, Lat. phasianus, Fr./aisan, Engl, pheasant, pertainiiij; 

 to the river I'hasis in Colchis. Tiie scientific name of the English pheasant is rhasianiiii 

 colrhiciis. The name "pheasant" has been ignorantly transferred to various American 

 birds of this family. 



Ped-I-o5'-c6-tes pha-sI-Sn-El'-lOs. Gr. irtSioy, a plain ; as we should sny, prairie ; from 

 irfSov, the ground; and olKerrit, an inliabitant ; sec Poitcelcs, No. 2.'52. The word was 

 originally written Pediocales. — Lat. p/iasiancllus, diminutive of phasianus ; see Centro- 

 cercus, Xo. 500. 



p. cOl-um-bl-a'-niSs. 

 Lewis and Clarke. 



To the Columbia river, whence the birds were brought by 



CiS-pi-d6'-nI-5 cfl-pi'-d8. The bird was named by Linnaeus Tetrao cupido, after the " blind 

 l)t)w-boy," son of Venus, not with any allusion to erotic con(;orns, but because the little 

 wings on the bird's neck were likened to "Cupid's wings." The same idea is repeated 

 in the English " pinnate<l " grouse. Professor Ueichenbach formed his genus Cupidonia 

 by merely adding a suffl.x. If he had written cupidinni, he would have had a classic 

 word, directly formed, like cupidus, from cupido, exactly expressing the sense intended 

 by Linnajus to be conveyed. — The Latin tetrao, from the Gr. rtrpiuv, and tilrix, from 

 the Gr. rcrpit, were certain gallinaceous birds, so called from their wont to cackle, 

 TtrpA^fiv ■■ all onomatopoeic. 



C. c. pal-ll-dl-cinc'-t5. Lat. pnllidus, pallid, pale ; and ductus, begirt, encircled ; cinjo, 

 I bind. 



Bfin-a'-sS um-bSl'-liSs. Gr. fi6va.aot. Lnt. honasus, a wild bull. The allusion her^ is to the 

 "drumming" noise made by the bird, likened to the bellowing of a bull ; see Biil>i>, 

 No. 402, and Bolaurua, No. 000. Also written Donasia. — Lat. umhelius, or umbella, an 

 umbel, umbrella; from umbra, shade, shadow, whence penumbra, umbrageous, &c. The 

 allusion is to the tuft of feathers on the side of the neck, as in the case of cu/iido, which 

 see. No. 503. Linnajus wrote Tetrno umlieliux, masculine; but we see no reason whj 

 umbella, the noun feminine, should not be used with Bunasa ; it is equally good Latin. 

 The adjective umbellata would be preferable to either. 



