CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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810. Diomedea brachyura Tcmm. b csi. c 678. R 701. 



Short-tailed Albatross. 



811. Diomedea nigripes And. b — . c r>79. r 700. ' 



Ulack-footed Albatross. 



812. PhcEbetria fUliginosa (Gm.) Cones. B C33. c 680, R 703. 



Sooty Albatross. 



813. Ossifraga gigantea (Gm.) Reich. B C34. C58i. R704. (!) 



Giant Fulmar. 



814. Fulmarus glacialis (L.) Stepb. B C35. c 582. U705. 



Kulmar. 



815. Fulmarus glacialis pacificus (Aiul.) Coues. b g3o. c 582a. r 705a. (?) 



Pacific Fulmar. 



816. Fulmarus glacialis rodgersi (Cass.) Coucs. B — . c 5826. R 7056. (?) 



Rotlgcrs's Fulmar. 



817. Priocella tenuirostris (Aud.) Ruljr. B C37. c 583. R 70c. (!) 



Slender-billed Fulmar. 



'., SL'il- 



, 1874, 



Ivo anil 

 liviileiit 

 Ijiic'C to 



1 whose 



810. DI-a-m€-de'-5 br5ch-y-u'-r5. Lat. Diomcdciis, adjective relating to IHomcdis or Aton-l)5ris, 



Jove-coiinsi'iied, a Grecian Ihto famous at the siege of Troy : application pr()l)ably 

 fanciful. Pliny's Dioiiudetv, arcs were birds living on the Island Diomedea in the 

 Adriatic. — Gr. /Spoxui, short, and oZpa, tail. 



811. D. nlg'-rl-pes. Lat. niijcr, black, and/».s foot. 



812. Phoe be'-trI-5 fQ-lI-gln-o'-sa. Gr. (potffriTpia, a prophetess, soothsayer, like ipoi0d(rTp\a,, 



J' .alidstria, another genus of this family inventei! by Heiehenbaeli ; tpot^dCw is to 

 prophesy; literally, to "play Apollo" with oracular utterances; *(u0os, I'hd bus, a 

 synonym of Apollo. These words arc with great propriety and correct .scnlimcut 

 applied to albatrosses, the import of whose weird presaging will be felt by one who reads 

 Coleridge's " Antient Mariner," or himself goes down the deep in ships. 



813. Os-sI'-frS-ga gl-gan'-tg-S. Lat. (>,s-.s//;(('/i(.s', bone-breaking, from rw, genitive oasis, a bone, 



and /riini/o, I break; in the perfect, /W'//, partiei|)le./i'/(/i/.s-; three fo.ins of the word 

 repeated in Knglish m fmnijihh', frwjilc, Jhwliiii : tlie Latin digammated from Gr. p-l^yvvfn; 

 the stem here seen giving an immense cro)) of words. — Lat. (//V/((»^ h.s, gigiintic, giant ; 

 the original " giants," (//(/(i/i/i.s-, ri7o>'T€s, were a race of Titans, who atlemptid to scale 

 high heaven; they were thi^ sons of Tartarus and Earth; but, being probably illcuiii- 

 niate, took the name of their mother; "gigantic" meaning literally "earth-born," 

 yqyfvi)^; y^l, and ylyvo/xat. 



Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



814. Ful'-ma-rus gl5-cl-a'-lls. Fulmarus is arbitrary Latinizotion atfiilmnr, which is said to be 



akin Xo fuUiiuirl, Jhuliimrt, ur fmimni, a polecat ; probably {nim/mil (dirty), and the root 

 of the word murder (Wharton's MS.). — Glaciulis, see llardda, No. I'M. 



815. F. g. pa-cl'-fl-ctls. Sec A northura, 'So. 17. 



816. F. g. r6d'-g6r-sL To Commodore John Kodgers, U. S. Navy. 



817. PrI-6-cel'-la t6n-Q-I-ros'-trTs. Prion l/it wc do not reeogni/e, unless, perhaps, it is a 



frightful concatenation of /V/oh and I'roidluriti, two well-known genera of this family. 

 French ornithologists were fre(iuently guilty of such atrocities; see F.mhrrnwira, No. 311, 

 for example. Agassiz gives it as /V/oii and I'rortlla. Prion is the (ir. Trpioii', a saw, from 

 the prominent teeth of tlie bill; for ProcdUiria, see below. — Lat. tuwirustris, slender- 



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