CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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740. CEdemia perspicillata trowbridgii (lid.) Coues. n go3. c 5i8a. r — . 



Long-billotI Hurf Duck. 



741. Erismatura rubida (Wils.) Up. n (io<). c cii). u«34. 



Itu(l<ly Duck. 



743. Nomonyx dominica (L.) Ridg. n cio. c 520. u cas. 



St. Doiiiliixu Diifk. 



743. Mergus merganser L. luiu. c .v.'i. u oao. 



MorKUiistor; <iousaii(lcr. 



744. Mergus serrator L. it (;r_'. c 522. ii 037. 



Ite<l-brt<a.stc«l MorgiiiiHor. 



745. Mergus cucuUatus ].. n v,v\. c 523. ii mh. 



IIoo<lo<l Morgaiisoi*. 



746. Sula bassana (L.) liriss. ii(U7.('524. ncr.o. 



Ciannct ; Molaii <>oos(*. 



747. Sula leucogastra (Hodd.) Salv. n cis. c 525. ii G53. 



Booby (jauiiot. 



748. Pelecanus trachyrhynchus LiitU. m ois. c B20. n 040. 



Aiiicrit'iin Wlilto I'cllcaii. 



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I'tlOU 



tliu 



I'.uro- 



i(\i'. of 



us to 



'&c. 

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on 



coii- 



Irb /" 



iliir ; 



740. O. p. trow-brld'-gl-i. To W. V. Trowliriilfjc, wlio collected in Cnlifornid. 



741. Er-is-m5-tu'-ra rflb'-I-d5. (!r. tptiana, a stay, prop, pier, and ovpa, tail, as tlic stiffened 



nieniliiT of tlie bird niitfiit seem to Ite. — l.at. riihidus, ruddy, roddisli. 



742. Nam-5'-nyx d6m-In'-I-c5. (ir. vouoi, law, order, rc^cuiar way, and ovuf, nail. Tin' nail at 



tin- end of the bill in all tiie .species of .xo-called /u-ismnliini, except ruiida, is t'ornied in a 

 particular way. — See Ihuiliartt, No. 121*. 



743. Mer'-gus mer-gan'-sfir. hat. minjns, a diver; minjo. I dive, mrrrjorr, mrrsi, memnin; 



whence subnierjj;ed, innnersed, itc. — Min/niisir is simply mfri/u. + uiit«:r, i. e., diving- 

 goose. 



744. M. s5r-ra'-tor. Lat. srrralnr, a sawyer; sirniliin, sawn, l.r., saw-sliaped, serrate, serried, 



ns tlie prominent teeth of tlie bill look like those of a saw ; sfi-ni, a, saw ; supposed to bt" 

 equal to sirni, from seen, I cut. 



745. M. cfl-cul-la'-ttSs. Lat runilldius, hooded, weann;; the nmiHitm, a kind of hood, a capu- 



clion, perhaps from its t'irciiiar shape (kvk\os). Vitv ajipropriate in this case. 



746. Su'-lS bas-sa'-nS. Snl'i, by Ai,',tssiz given as a proper nanie, was Latinized lately from 



tlie Fregeli name, /.<■ Siilc. — Qiiasi-Lat. liiiKS<niiis is an adjective diTived from the name 

 of one of the great haunts of tlie bird, the Bass Kock, Firth of Forth, Scotland. 



747. S. Ieu-c6-gas'-ti5. (Jr. Afuxo's, white, and yaaTl]p, the belly. 



This stands ns S.jiUir in the orig. ed. See Salv., Tr. Z. S. i.\-, pt. ix, 18"'), p. 400. 



748. Pel-fi-ca'-niSs trach-y-rhynch'-us. Or. iriXiKav, or irfXtKivos, or ''■f pch'niins, a pelican. 



The etymology is obscure; but the pelican was fabled to stri and wound its own 

 breast, that the young might bo nourished with blood ; and there are various Greek and 

 Latin words signifying some cutting and striking iiistriinient, as an axe, which are 

 nearly identical in form with the above. — (ir. rpax^ii, rough, uneven, ami fivyxos. Il;e 

 beak; with reference to the deciduous excrescence or " ceiitre-bourd " on the upjicr 

 mandible. 



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