CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMEItlCAN BIRDS. 



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645. Numenius hudsonicus Lath. B .wo. c 442. u ."sso. 



Iliiilsonian Curlew. 



640. Numenius borealis (Forst.) Lath. Bcsi. c 443. u sco. 



Eskimo Curlew. 



647. Numenius ta'itensis (Gm.) Lath, n — . C442m«. U662. (!a.) 



Otahiti Curlew. 



648. Tantalus loculator L. B 497. c 444. R 500. 



Wood Ibis. 



649. Plegadis falcinellus (L.) Kaup. n 500. c 445. ii 503. 



<i1ossy Ibis. 



650. Plegadis guarauna (L.) Ridg. b — . c 445tM, 443/tT. u 504. 



White-faced Glossy ibis. 



651. Eudocimus albus (L.) WagL B 499. c 440. u 501. 



White Ibis. 



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645 

 646 

 647 



N. htSd-sSn'-I-ciSs. To Hudson's Bay, aftor Ilcnry Hudson. 

 N. bfir-6-a'-lIs. Lat. horcalis, northern ; Imras, the northwind. 



N. t5-I-ten'-sTs. Of Otahcitc, one of the Society or Friendly Islands. The original orthoR- 

 rapliy, ^i/i'V/cHs/.s-, is resolvable into tlie above, whicli is less barbarous in sound and look. 

 Though named for the island called in Knglish Otalieite, or better Otahiti, tlie first syl- 

 lable is to be dropped as being merely the definite article the. It is the native name 

 0-tahiti, r/ip-island ; i'. e., the principal island. 



This is N.fi'iimntlis, IVale, of the orig. ed.. Appendix. 



648. Tan'-tai-Qs IS-cfl-'a'-tor. Or. ToktoAos, Tantalus, tho Thrygian king, who, admitted to 



the council.s of the gods, betrayed their secrets, and was tormented, " tantalized," with 

 food and water in sight but unattainable. — hat. locits, a place; hnihis, a little place, 

 division, compartment ; lociihlus or Inriilosiis, furnished with compartments, full of 

 " pigeon-holes " ; but iju. lociilalor and its apj)lication to this bird ? 



649. Ple'-g5-dTs fal-cIn-el'-lQs. Or. irKriyds, a scythe, sickle, from irXi^n-irai or itX^tto), I strike. 



The actual form, Plcijadis, may be a diminutive; if so, it is exactly Oreek for the quasi- 

 Lsit'mfiilriii<llus,fiilriciilii, or/iilntiiculiif!, a little scythe, small hook ; fiil.r, a rea))ing-hook 

 or any thing of thtit/nlratc sha])c, as the bill of this bird is. See Folcn, No. 408. 



This stands in the orig. eel. as Ihis fiilrii.cllKS var. (irilii. But it has proved to bo not 

 satisfactorily distinguisheil from the Kuropean form ; while as to the generic designa- 

 tion, see Ibis, 1878, p. 112. 



650. P. gfl-5-raQ -n5. A barbarous word, of some South Artiorican (Brazilian) dialect. It 



occurs as such in Marcgrave and other early ornitliologists. 



This stands as Itiis iiiinraniia in the orig. ed. ; see No. (UO. The fhis thdlasKinuK of 

 Ridg., Am. Nat., viii, 1874, p. 110, inserted in the Appendix of the orig. ed. as No. ■iiiitrr, 

 proves to be the young of this species: see Cones, Bull. U. S. (ieol. and Oeogr. Siirv. 

 Terr., iv, No. 1, 1878, p. 67. 



651. EQ-dflc'-I-miis Sl'-bQs. Or. :fiti6Ktiiot, well-tried; hence, approved, famous, of high 



repute; from fv, well, and SJki^uoi, assayeil and found acceiitable; Stxonat, I accept. 

 The this or Wu of the ancients (not this species) was a celebrated and sacred bird; it 

 was the Kgyptian bird, now called Hits (vtliinjiird. — Lat. nllnis, white. 

 This is fills iilhit in the orig. ed. See Klliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 482. 



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