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818. Daptitim capense (L.) Stcpb. B639. c 584. r 719. (!) 



Pintado Petrel; Cape Pigeon. 



819. CEstrelata hcesitata (Kuhl) Coues. B 638. c 685. R 7i7. (!) 



Bluck-capped Petrel. [See Ailileiida, No. 887. 



820. CEstrelata bulweri (Jard. iJ^ Solb.) Coues. B — . c — . R 718. (G. !E.) 



Biilwcr'a Petrel. 



821. Halocyptena microsoma Coues. b — . c 58C. r 720. 



Least Petrel. 



822. Procellaria pelagica L. b c45. c 587. r 721. 



stormy Petrel. 



823. Cymochorea leucorrhoa (V.) Coues. b C42. c g88. r 723. 



Leach's Petrel. 



billed; tentd's, slender, slight; more literally thin, as if spread out thin; from tenuo,l 

 make thin, dilute, rarefy ; from Gr. rdvoi, I stretcli out, spread out, e.Ntend. 

 The bird is questionably North American, unles,s as astray on the high sea. 



818. Dap'-ti-um c5p-en'-s6. Gr. Sarrnoi' or Sujttiov, a diminutive of Buttt?)* or Si^ttji, a diver. 



This set of words vary in the vowels in diHerent dictionaries, and nuiy not all be found ; 

 compounds of them are seen in ornithology in eudi/pUn, eiKli/tm, &c. They are all from 

 one root. The above is almost universally written ilajition, but in transliteration fi'iuii 

 Greek to Latin becomes properly ilujiflum. — Capciisn, of the Cape of Good Hope, which 

 was the cape in those days ; Cajmt IJoiuv-S/wi, as it was calleil ; cujmt, head, a headland. 

 — " Pintado " is painted ; i. c, of variegated colors ; pimjo, I paint. 

 Only North Amerii.'an as astray on the high sea. 



819. Oes-tre'-la-ta haes-I-ta'-tS. Gr. olarprjXaTos, literall)', goaded on by a gad-fly, {i.e., a 



goad-fly), oiarpos, nxtnis, as cattle are; hence, goaded on in any way, as these wide- 

 ranging ocean birds seem to be by some mysterio\is inii)ulse whic'h drives them over the 

 waves. The latter part of the word, -lata, the " goaded on " part of the whole idea, is from 

 the Gr. i\avi/u), I urge on, drive. — Lat. luesilala, literally, stuck fast; luisiln, I stick fast, 

 intensified from li<rirn, I hang to, cleave to, niVierc ; in a tropical sense, I hesitate; the 

 latter is the application in this case, the dcscribcr of the bird being uncertain about it, 

 and therefore liatiUiliiKi to name it. When at length the above generic and specific 

 terms were combined, the bird was jiiit in the bad way of a stuck-fast gad-about ! 

 Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



820. O. bul'-wer-I. To Uulwer. 



Oidy !North American as a straggler to Greenland. See Newton, 5Ian. Nat. Hist. 

 Greenl., 1875, p. 108 ; Freke, Zoologist, Septetnbcr, 1881, p. ;J78. 



B^l. Hal-o-cyp-te'-na mic-r6-so'-ma. Gr. fi\s, genitive oaJs, the salt sea, oiki^j, swift, TrrT/rJj, 

 winged — Gr. /xtxpos, small, awfia, body; "the sharp-winged little sea-body." 



823. Pr6-cel-la'-rl-a p6l-5'-gT-c3. Lat. proccUaria or prorellnsu, stormy, tenipestuotis, relating 

 to storm ; proreUn, a storm. — Gr. irf\ayiK6i, pelagic, relating to the sea ; thoroughly 

 Greek, but transliterable into Latin. — Petrel is commonly fancied to be a diminutive 

 of I'eter, Pitnix. who attempted to walk on the sea of Galilee, as these little birds seem 

 to be continually doing, in the way they patter over the ocean waves; but there are 

 manv forms of petrel, as petteril, pctcrel, lic, and the word may bo related to the verb 

 to patter, just used. 



823, C>^-m6-ch6r-e'-S leu-cor'-rh6-S. Gr. Kv^a. genitive Kvnarot, the surging billows, and 

 xopda or xop')"' 'i choir, a dancing; literally, the wave-dancers. One of my critics has 

 favored me with an excellent reason why, according to his faithful dictionary, the 



