CHECK LIST OF NOIITH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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724. Fuligula vallisneria (Wils.) Stoph. b 602. c 004. u 017. 



Cuuvas-bock. 



725. Clangula glaucium (L.) Urchin, h 5iKJ. c 505. u 020. 



Uolden-oyo. 



726. Clangula islandica (Gm.) Up. b 5<j4. c 500. u cio. 



narrow's OoI«Icn-cyc. 



727. Clangula albeola (L.) Stoph. b noa. c 507. 11021. 



Itiifllc-heud ; Uuttor-ball; Spirit Duck. 



728. Harelda glacialis (L.) Letidi. Brm. c 508. u C2n. 



Loiig-tullod Duck; Old Wife. 



729. Camptolaemus labradorius ((im.) Gr. b coo. c 509. 11 024. 



Labrador Duck. 



730. Histrionicus minutus (L.) Couos. b 59c. c 510. u (!22. 



Harlequin Duck. * 





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724. 



725. 



726. 

 727. 



738. 

 729. 



730. 



F. val-lIs-n5r'-I-S. Vallisneria is a genus of iiquntic plants, tlio wild colcry, V. spiralis \,., 

 niuiii'd for Antoinu Vallisner, a French botani.st. 'I'lii' niinie was aijpliotl to the hinl 

 from its fonclnuss for this plant ns food. The name eaiivashaek. from the jieimhar 

 coloration of the upper parts, is an Americanism which lias licen in use ui least, siiit e 

 1800. (i'.ij., see Barton, Med. and I'lijs. Jom-n., pt. i, vol. ii, I8O0, p. 101.) 



Clan'-gu-15 glaii'-cl-um. Lat. clomjula, diminutive of i-taiii/or, a clang, noise; the corre- 

 sjionding (Jr. KKayyti means particularly the outcry of wild animals ; K\d^u, future 

 KKay^w, I cry out. It was applied to this bird several centuries af,'o. — Ur. 7Aai^Kiai' or 

 yKavtciov, a kind of wild duck, perhaps this very species. Under the varying forum of 

 yhiitcioii, ijhiHcium, r/kiuciiis, and (jlauciu, it has been definitely applied to this duck for 

 more than three centuries. 



is-land'-I-ca. 



To Iceland. Sec Falco, No. COO. 



C. al-b6'-6-lS. Diminutive (irregular) form of allms, white: allmla would be better form. 

 "ButHe-head" is a corruption of bulTalo-head, from the pulFmess of the head; " buttcr- 

 . ball " from the fatness of the bird at tiuies : " spirit duck," from the quickness of diving. 



Har-el'-da gla-cl-a'-lls. Ilarchla is a nonsense-word, invented by Leach. — Lat. tjlacinlis, 

 glacial, icy, relating to ice; (jlticics, ice. (Unde derivatur ? cf. Gr. yKavKos) 



Camp-t6-laem'-Qs lab-ra-do'-rl-Qs. Gr. KajUirrJs, tiexilile, as leather is, for instance ; 

 Kafiiro), I bend; and Aoi^uut, the throat; but the whole word rcfiTs to the soft leathery 

 e.xpansiou of the bill, iis if (.'(iiiiiilorld/iirliiis, for which Utter word, preoccupied in zoiilogy, 

 it was proposed as a substitute. — To Labrador; which name is said to have been given 

 to the country by the Spaniards, it being considered eullivable, as Greenland was not; 

 Span. Idtnitilo, cultivated land; hihrmhr, laborer; hilmir, to work. 



His-trl-o'-nl-cus mt-nii'-tQs. Lat. Iiislrionirus, liistrioinc, relating to hislrin, a stage- 

 player ; because the bird is tricked out in various colors, as if it were dressed to play 

 some part on the stage. The word is related in the most interesting manner to fa'storia, 

 history, and liisluloji/, the science of tissues of the body ; the idea being the weaving 

 together of things, to make, as history, a connected account, as in histology, a tissue of 

 organs. Wo still say, for example, a tissue of falsehood, &c. These words are all 

 related to l<rT6s, a loom, or the web woven on it. 



