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824, Cymochorea melaena (Bp.) Coues. b C43. c 589. ii 724. 



Black Petrel. 



825. Cymochorea homochroa Cones, b — . c 590. ii 725. 



Ashy Potrel. 



828. Oceanodroma furcata (Gm.) Up, b g40. c 591. u 720. 

 Fork-tailed Petrel. 



827. Oceanodroma hornbyi (Gr.) Bp. b (i4i. c 692. r 727. 



Hornby's Petrel. 



828. Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) Coues. b C44. c 093. r 722. 



Wilson's Petrel. 



829. Fregetta grallaria (V.) Bp. b 640. c 594. r 728. (!) 



Lawrence's Petrel. 



830. Priofinus melanurus (Bonn.) Ridg. b 661. c 595. r 707. (!) 



Black-talled Sbeurwater. 



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824. 

 835. 

 826. 



827. 

 823. 



829. 



830. 



word ougl.t to have been rymalochorrutes. Wo would refer liim to liis dictionary again 

 for certain words beginning with sync- and cu,,/,-. The stem of the first part of tiie word 

 IS seen ni accunwiale, to roil up; of the second in rl,onl, choir, chord, choresis, or chorea 

 (bt. Vitus's dance), &c. — Gr. \(vk6s, white, and Sfi;,os, tlie rump. 



mei-ae'-n5. Gr. fi^\as, feminine /ue'Aoiva, black. The orthography introduced by 

 Bonaparte, melanin, requires to be emended as above. 



C. ha-mo'-chrd-a. Gr. dfiSs, equal, like, and xpcfa, color; in allusion to the unicolor 



Iiluinnge. 



6-c6-5n-6'-dr6-ma fur-ca'-t5. Gr. 'n^.arrff, Oceanus, the divinity of, and the ocean 

 Itself; supposed to be i/cJs, swift, an.l „^u,, I flow. See Amnwdnimus, No. 2.38, and 

 Jlildramtsm, Xo. 0(50.— Jm. fmratiis, forked ; furca, a fork. 



O. horn'-by-J. To Admiral Hornby, U. N. 



0-c6-an-i'-tes o-cg-an'-I-cQs. Gr. i«.aWT„,, a son of the sea; sprung from Oceanus. 

 hoe OccwMdromtt, Xo. 820.— Gr. i,K(aviK6i. oceanic. 



Fr6-get'-ta gral-la'-rl-a. Frcfjetta, frcjcta, frerjakt, as variously spelled, is from the Ital. 

 Jrc;iuU,, Span. ,/,v,,/„^,, Ft. fri'iiatc, Eng. _/ri;,„t,- ; according to Diez, the Lat. fahrirai,, ■ 

 orignuilly applied in French ornithology to the bird ealle.l man-of-war, Tnrhmlc's 

 aqmlus; applied by En-lish ornithologists about KW to some species of the present 

 family, and very lately taken by Bonaparte for a generic X,rm.- Gr„ll,r, among the 

 Romans, was a pair of stilts, the word being contracted from v'va/»/a. tliis from ,ir„dm, 

 a step ; and the Urallatorcs were people who acted on the stage on stilts. The word was' 

 early taken in ornithology for wading bir.ls, called ./m//,. or ,ir,illatons, from their length 

 of eg; from these words we have derived the Knglish adjectives ,,raUarial and ,jralh,U^ 

 rml;jiM .,r,dlana is an obvious easy Latin derivative, though probably never used by 

 the Romans. ^ 



Only North American as astray on the liigh sea. 

 Pri-a'-nn-us m61-5n-u'-ri3s. Priofums, unless we are mistaken, is a dreadful concoction 

 ol prion and imfli„m, by the same victims of misapplied ingenuity who gave us PriocM, ■ 

 see this. No. 817, and P,,(linu., next below. -Gr. /./a«s, genitive ^iXa.os, black, and 

 uipa, tail. ' 



Only North American as astray on the high sea. 



