CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMEIilCAN BIRDS. 



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759. Phalacrocorax violaceus resplendens (Aud.) Ridg. b— . c— . U646a. 



Baird's Cormorant. 



760. Plotus anhinga L, b g28. c 53g. r g49. 



Anhinga; Darter; Siiakc-bird. 



761. Tachypetes aquilus (L.) V. b cio. c 537. R 039. 



Frigate Bird ; Man-of-war Bird. 



762. Phaethon sethereus L. B — . c — . r 635. (?!) • 



Rcd-billcd Tropic-bird. 



763. Phaethon ^avirostris Brandt. B c^9. c 538. R (i54. 



Yellow-biiicd Tropiobird. 



764. Stercorarius skua (IJiUun.) Coues^ B G52. c 539. R gog. 



Sliiia. 



765. Stercorarius pomatorhinus (Tcmm.) Lawr. B C53. c 540. R G97. 



Poniatorhiuc Jager. 



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759. P. V. res-plen'-dens. Lat. resplendens, resplendent, splendid, c lustrous; resphndcn or 



splcndco, I shine, gleam. Splendor is derived by some etymologists from airKi]{y]S6i, 

 live coals. 



Not in tlic orig. ed. Since recognized by Ridgway, Pr. Nat. Mus., iii, 18S0, p. 222. 

 Farallone Islands. 



760. Plo'-tQs an-hin'-ga. Gr. irKwrSs, being a good swimmer; from irXiia or irAe'oi, I swim, 



navigate ; Lat. /ilutns ; and very early applied, in ornithology, to divers swininiiiig hirds. 

 — AnluiKja is a barbarous word, from the I'ortugiieso antdnn, and equivalent to the 

 Lat. (inrinina, snaky ; <iii;/iiis, a snake; very well apjilied to this curious bird, which in its 

 suba(iucous excursions strangely resend)les a swimming serpent. See Cones, Bull. Xutt. 

 Orii. Club, iii, 1878, p. 101. We should like to substitute tiie Latin form of the word, 

 but that would probably be going too far. 



761. Tach-y'-p6t-es a'-quU-us. Gr. TaxuTrtTTjr, Lat. tac/ii/pelfs, flying rapidly; raxo^, swift, 



and ireVo.uoi, I fly. — Lat. arpuliis, swarthy, dark-colored. The word is vaguely su])- 

 posed by most persons to have something to do with (upiihi, an eagle, in consideration 

 of the raptorial prowess of tiiis piratical high-flyer; but it would in that case be cither 

 (irpiilii, substantive, an eagle, or aijuilinus, adjective, aquiline. Aqmla and aquilus are 

 doubtless the same word, etymologically ; but the present specific name has nothing 

 furtiier to do with the genus Aqiilla, which see. No. 532. 



762. P. ae-th6'-re-Qs. Gr. alOepios, Lat. (itlureiis, etherial, relating to the alOvp. iriher, ether, or 



serene upper air, as opposed to ay)p, uiir, the lower aerial region ; the birds of this genus 

 being MoIcd for soaring aloft. Tli. ulOoi, &a). 



Not in the orig. cd. If there be no mistake in identilicatioM, this species ha.s 

 struggled to Newfoundland. See Freko, Comp. List B. of Kiir.and \. A., p. 41 (repaged 

 from I'roc. Koy. Soc. Dubl., 187!)), 



763. Pha'-e-th5n fla-vl-ros'-trls. Gr. 'Pae'Owi/, Lat. /'/»((V/,'m, a proper name, an epithet of the 



suti ; I'hdelhon having once nnderlakeii to drive the eharint of the sun, his f;ithcr Helios ; 

 well applied 'o these iiighly aerial Itirds of the Tropics. Sciiiietinies vi ry wrongly 

 written rihillmn. and even Phalon —iMt.jliciroslris. yellowbilieil. 



764. Ster-car-a'-rl-Qs skQ'-a. Lnt. stercomrius, having to di with ordure, a scavenger; sternts, 



excrement ; from tiic filthy habits of the bird. — .Sliai is tiie name aiiplied to the bird 

 by the Fairoi'se. 



765. S. p5-ina-ta-rhin'-Qs. Gr.irw;Ka,gcnitlvcirw/«iToj, a flap, lid, cover; ond^/j, genitive ^im. 



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