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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



682. Forzana jamaiconsis cotumiculus Bd. b — . c 470a. r 576a. 



Farallone Black Crako. 



683. Crex pratensis Bechst. boss, c 471. R577. (!e.) 



Corn Crake. 



684. Gallinula galeata (Licbt.) Bp. b sgo. c 472. b 679. 



Florida Gallinule. 



685. lonomis martinica (L.) Reich, b 661. c 473. R 578. 



Purple Gallinule. 



686. Fulica americana Gm. b 659. c 474. r 68O. 



American Coot. [Sec AdJcndn, No. 885. 



687. PhcBnicoptenis ruber L. b 602. c 475. r 686. 



Red Flamingo. 



688. Cygnus buccinator Rich, b 662. c 476. R 689. 



Trumpeter Swan. 



689. Cygnus columbianus (Ord) Coues. b 6616m. c 477. R 688. 



American Swan. 



682. P. j. c8-tur-nT'-cQ-liSs. Lat. diminutive of Cotumix, which sec, No. 579. 



683. Crex pra-ten'-sls. Gr. wptf, Lat. crcx, a crake; all tliree of these words arc the same, 



meaning tlie creaking, crackling cry of tlie bird ; KpfKKO, I make sucli a noise. — Lat. 

 pratensis, see Gnis, No. (i"0. (A subgenus, " Crescicus," whicli passed ' • some Anieri(.'an 

 works for tlic black rail, was simply a mispruit for creciscus, whicli is a Greek diminu- 

 tive form of Kpe'f. ) 



684. Gal-lin'-G-15 g51-C-a'-t5. Lat. gnllimih, a. diminutive of rjvllina, a hen : see Gullinm/o, No. 



008. It is commonly but wrongly accented on the ]K<nult, and pronounced i/ally-new'-ler! 

 But fjuU-lecn'-u-kih is doubtless nearer the sound a Honiiin would have made if ho had 

 used the word. — Lat. yaleata, hehneted ; y(i!eci, a helmet ; i/aleo, I crown with a helmet ; 

 very apt, in allusion to the frontal shield of a bird of this genus. 



685. I-on-or'-n!s tnar-tln'-l-cS. Gr. iuv, luvia, a violet, and 6pvis, a bird ; aell applied to these 



lu.xurious porpliyritic or hyacinthine " sultans." — English viola is from Lat. nWu, and 

 this is very easily gotten from the Greek. — To the island of Martinique. 



686. Ffil'-t-cS Sm-€r-I-ca'-n5. Lat. fulica, same as fiilix, a coot, from the sooty color of the 



bird ; fuliijo, soot, w hence _/i///;7/»o.'iHs, &c. 



687. PhoS-nI-cop'-t6r-Qs rflb'-6r. Gr. ipotvixSnTtpos, Lat. pitmiicoptcrus, the flamingo ; literally, 



red-winged : ^oiVif and rripov : see Aijeheus, No. 31(J. — Lat. rulier, red. — English ,/?(/h/(m.';o 

 seems to come directly through the Spanish _/?(/Hi*'nco, the name of this bird ; both these, 

 as the French ^a/H(iH<, are of course from tl.e 'Lalinjlamma, flame, fieryred. 



688. Cyg'-nfis buc-cTn-a'-t6r. Gr. kCkvos, Lat. ojnms or cyr/nus, a swan ; famed for its dying 



song ; also name of a person fabled to have been transmuted into the bird. The name 

 is probably rooted i ■ the idea of singing, this bi'ing one of the most persistent and 

 ubiquitous myths. — Lat. bucciimtor, a trumpeter, who uses his cheeks so much in blowing 

 his instrument ; buccina, or fivKdvri, a trumpet ; bucca, the cheek. 



689. C. cfi-lum-bl-a'-nQs. Of the Columbia River, where specimens were noted by Lewis and 



Clarke, afterwards named by Ord. 



This stands in the orig. ed. as C americanus. For the change, see Coues, Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 2d ser., No. 0, 1876, p. 444. 



