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120 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



766. Stercororms parasiticus (Brlinn.) Gray, n 654. c 541. ii C98. 



Parasitic J tiger. 



767. Stercorarius buffoni (Bole) Coiics. n 055. c 542. R 6<J9. 



Arctic Jiigcr; Long-tailed Jiigcr. 



768. Larus glaucus nriimi. B (156. c 543. u 660. 



Glaucous Gull. 



769. Larus leucopterus Fabcr. B 658. C544. R661. 



White-winged Gull. 



770. Larus glaucescens Lidit. B 057, 659. c 546. r C62. 



Gluucous-\vingcd Gull. 



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771. Larus marinus L. B 660. c 546. R 663. 



Great BlacJf-baclied Gull. 



772. Larus argentatus UrUiin. B — . c 547. R 666. 



Herring Gull. 



773. Larus argentatus smithsonianus Couos. B66i.C547a. r 666a. 



Smithsonian Herring Gull. 



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the nose; from tlio scale-like covorinp; of tlio nostrils. Toniiniiu'lc, lialiitually ciiiTlcss 

 in such matters, orifiiiialiy wrote iionian'nus, and we liave almost always said " i^oimirinn " 

 jager, with some vaf^ue notion of Mi . si (/ in liie i-ise of this tiidiiiic bird; but Newton's 

 explanation of the word, as above, is undotibledly correct. %\i}(r or jaciicv is the German 

 for hunter, these birds being habitual hunters and plunderers of the t;ulls and terns. 

 The name was originally applieil to a class of wild huntsmen who lived on the banks of 

 the Rhine, and siipixirted themselves entirely by plunder and robbery. 



766. S. par-S-si'-tl-cus. (!r. vapaatTtKos, I.at. I'anisilinis, jiarasitic ; Or. irnpda-iTos, T,af. pani- 



s/'/Ks, a ])arasite, frnni jro^ja, by the side of, and (r?Tos, fi''''"'. fi""l ; liteially, one wlio sits 

 at the table of another; as we should say now. in vidjrar parlance, a " frce-luneher," 

 " bunnner," " dead-beat " ; hence, in general, iiiy kind of a hanger-on. 



767. S. biif-ffin'-i. To .lean Louis Le Clerc, Comjite de Biiffon, the famous I'rcnch panegyrist 



of nature, parlicidar friend of Limueus, who wrote a gri'at history of birds wilh the 

 lielj) of the Abbi' de Montbeillard, and caused Daiibenton to prepare the celebrated 

 lOOS I'lanciies KnlmnincVs. 



768. L5r-ijs glau'-cQs. (Ir. Kapos. Lat. /kivis, a gull. — Lat. .'//i/kciis, glaucous, bluish, 7Aau/f(<i. 



iSce (il'iiiriilnim, Xo. 4Sb (inll is suppost^d to be named for its gluttony, from ijiilo, a, 

 glutton (v'/'ir, the gullet) ; M^-lsh, i;icy/i((i ,- Vr, iinrJuiHt. 



769. L. leQ-cop'-ter-us. Or. \tvK69, white, and irrfpov, wing. 



770. L. glau-ces'-cens. Lat. (decidedly i)ost-elassii') iilniircxniis, the prc'-cnt participle of a 



suppositious inceptive wrh (/In iirrsm. 1 grow bluish ; meaning here somewhat bluish. 



771. L. ma-ri'-niis. Lat. mcnuK.s-, marine ; Hiu/v, the sea. 



772. L. ar-gen-ta'-tiis. Lat. <tiyriit<iliis, silvered, silver\'; the participle of an obsolete verb 



(iriii)iti); (iriidil 11)11, silver, money, from &pyvpot, silver, apyds, white, the color of the 

 metal. One writer has criticised the use of nnidiliitiis to denote a silvery color, arguing 

 that arijrntntm would mean silvered over, silver-jilated, or frosted, and projiosed to sub- 

 stitute some other derivative of iinjrnliim. But this is hypercritieism ; the word is 

 more apt or fit for the bird than most siiecific names are. 



773. L. a. smIth-s6n-I-a'-ntSs. To the Snntlisonian Institution ; this named for James Smith> 



son, illegitimate sun of Hugh Percy, Uuke of Nurthuinburland. 



