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C//ffCA' /J57' OF NOJtril AMERICAN BIIWS. 



848. Podicipes corniitus (Cm.) \a\W\. w im. r (in. i; 732. 



Iluriicd (iiri-l)**. 



849. Poclicipes aiiritus (L.) Lath, ii 708. c — . ii 7:!;i. (o.) 



lCiiro|)(>aii 10a roil <Jrolio. 



850. Poclicipes auritus californicus (Ilocrm.) Coiics. b 707. c ri2. n ~"?>n, 



Aiiiorlcan Karcd <irt>I>o. 



851. Podicipes dominicus (Ji.) Lnth. n 70Ha. r r.iM. n 7.14. 



St. DoiiiliiKu CJrobo. 



852. Podilymbus podicipes (L.) Lawr. 117011. v.i;u. \x':\:,. 



l>le<l-bil!(><l Orcbc; I)ub-cliU-k. 



853. Fratercula corniculata (Naum.) Cray. r. 71;?. r cm. n 714. 



Horned I'lilllii. 



ill till' wntcr, — uriiiii(? "licola over lipad," lis \vt' slinulil <iay. In dcriviiifr tlio iinino of 

 till' fainily ol' t^ri'.K's, fioiiio i'\iri(,iis words liavc lii^cii vi'iitiin-d ; iis /'odirij.inir, as if tlie 

 pcnitivu wtTc imdirijils, or I'diliriiiiliiKf, as if tiii' gciiitivi' won' junUriiiilis. Tlifn" is no 

 doiilit that jHiilicijiK, iukI I'Vcrytliiiin: diM'ivi'd fi'oiii it, is absurd. Wu liavf not traced the 

 word liaik of IT.'ilS, when it |iri)hahly orijiinatttl in a pispriiit. (ioiiin liaciv furlhi'r in 

 the aiiiiais of oriiitliolotjy, we soon eoine upon the word iii its jjrojier foriii, \\7,., juidiripts, 

 oecurrhi^' iipeincdiy in Wiiiiifildiy and various writers of alioiit lliat inriod. 'I'lie word 

 is the I.aliii junlrx, tjenitive yyoi/Zr/.s, the riiui]), l)Utti)eks, and pis, foot ; lieiii}; siniiily a 

 transhiiion into .atiii of a very vui^ar Iliijilisli name, llaviiip; crystallized in the shape 

 of iKiilln jis, \>y Latham's employ of the word as a fieneric term, ami then liceii used for a 

 century, it will not he easy to eradicate; imt the attempt should lie made to subslitute 

 the jiroper /("//(■//«>•. The genitive of this is podin'iKili.t, and the family name should he 

 I'<idi<ip< dii/ir. — Lilt, ip'iniiis, i^ray : i/iiin, eheek. 



Xoii:. — There is no technical reason or excuse for iisinp tlio word at all. For 

 Ciili/iiiliii!<, lirisson, IT'in, is the jiroper name for the jxeniis of grebes, haviiij; meant 

 ("irebe, not Loon, from the time of Aristotle to that of Limueiis, when the latter used it 

 for loons and urebes indiscriminatel)'. 'I'he loons were calU'd .l/"'/«.v by IJrisson ; and 

 J\iidi/I's, IJlJLrer, ISll, seems to be the teiiabk' Lri'Ueric name for llieiii. 

 P. cor-nu'-tus. Lat. rornulus, horned; runni, a born; in reference to the tufts of feathers 

 on the head. 



P. aiir-i-tias. Lat. (viritns, eared; oioi'.s, an ear; Or. o5i, penilivc wtAs, ear; in allusion 

 to the auricular tufts of feathers. 



•til American as occurring in Greenland. 



848. 

 849. 



850. 

 851. 

 653. 



Not in the orif?. ed. ( ^\\\y North American a 

 P. cal-I-for'-nT-cus. To f'alifornia. 

 P. ddm-ln'-i-cijs. To the Island of St. L)omin.co. 



Sec Dcndnrcn, No. 1'JO. 



P6d-I-lym'-bus pfid-I'-cT-pes. The word padl/i/nihim, sometimes airtrravatcd into pndij- 

 limliiis, is a iicculiarly villaiKUis miscegenation of ii<}di\rips and cdlli/iiibiis ; see the latter 



word. No. J<li\ iiud /'( 



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No. HIT. 



853. Fra-ter'-cii-la c6r-nl-c\jl-a'-ta. 



Frulrrodii " is 



iilar word, the apjilication of wliieli 



to this bird is not (divious, and the form of wliich seems absurd: a r'liiiiidnr noun m(>aii- 



ing 



ittle lirother.' 



rriitircnins 



is a projier classical 



•d, a diminutive of fi<it( 



brother. l?ut there is no larger bird sufflciently near this s]ii 

 called the "little brother." Fnilt renin in ornithological writii 



for the latter to be 

 j iniicli older than 



1700, when Brisson made a genus of it, and we are inclined to think Uiat it is humorously 

 used ; all the more so by being made feminine, in the same spirit that proinjited the 

 comic writer I'lautiis to invent the verb //v//(,v»/", as lie did sm-mw, to signalize the 

 swellings of the breasts of boys, like <(iVH-brotliers, at puberty. If there be anything in 





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