CHECK LIST OF SOUTH AMElilCAN lilltDS. 



854. Fratercula arctica (I..) Stcpli. u na. c ois. ii 743. 



('oiiiiiioii riilllii ; Sea I'liri-ot. 



855. Fratercula arctica glacialis (Lcaeli) Couos. 13714. c oisa. u 743a. 



Lai-KO-billtMl I'lilUii. 



850. Fratercvila cirrata (I'all.) Stq)Ii. n til', 7i(i. v (iio. 1: 7.15. 



Turted I'lilUii. 



857. Ceratorhina monocerata (I'all.) Cass. 11 717, 718. (,• 0-0. u 7i(i. 



IIorn-bllltMl Auk. 



858. Simorhynchus psittaculus (I'all.) Sdil. n 7'."r.. ('(!-i. 1:747. 



rarroiiiict Auk. 



859. Simorhynclnis cristatellus (I'all.) Morr. u 7ii», 7::o. c g-_>. li 748. 



Crested Auk. 



860. Simorhynchus pygmaeus (Cm.) Ridg. » vi\. c-iw. n 74<). 



M'liiMkcred Auk. 



861. Simorhynchus pusillus (I'all.) Coucs. i! 7l'i:, 712:1. c (i-i. 11 7.-50. 



Knob-hUlcd Auk. 



862. Ptychorhamphus aleuticus (I'all.) IJrcU. ii vn. c 0-5. 11 751. 



Aleutian Auk. 



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854. 

 855. 

 853. 



857. 



858. 



859. 

 860. 



861. 

 862. 



this, tlR. api.li,.ation of tl,e word to tla^ hinls is to he sou-lit in thoir stout puiT:) shiip,. 

 that wiiR'ii apprais to havo caiLsfd the English word /»////». .See /'/////h»,s, No. HVA — \mI 

 conm:nl„Ui, hoinid, a din.inutivc of ronml,i.: referring to the aeul.. epidermal process oa 

 tlie upper eyelid, whleh is deciduous, huing shed like the liorns of duer. 

 F. arc'-tl-c5. iSeo Sktliu, No. 21). 

 F. a. gla-cl-a'-lls. See Ilaiddu, So. 7l'8. 

 F. cir-ra'-ta. Lat. drratiis or cinhah,.^, having eiirlcd locks, or ringlets, eurly-lmired • 



cirrus or cirrl,,,.^, a curl of hair ; well applied to this oddly feather-tufted hird. 

 C6r-at-6-rhi'-na m6-n6-cer-a'-ta. (ir. „^pa!. genitive K.'paro,, a horn, and pis, genitive 

 /S.i/ds, the nose; alluding to the pn.ini.unt deeiduous horn which grows ni. from the 

 base of the hill, over the nostrils. - (ir. ^^Voj, only, alone, single, transliterated as Lut 

 mono-, in composition, and K^pa,, horn. Latinized as ciVas, caui;,, whence ."i adjective 

 form, ccraliis, horni'd; that is, unicorn, one-horned. 

 Si-ma-rhyn'-chijs psit-ta'-cfl-lijs. Or. ,r,^<,'i, tlat-noscd, snub-nosed, like the negro ; ^liyxos. 

 beak; well apjilied to these birds, wlio.se bills are singularly s'^aped. The same idea i.s 

 expressed in the Latin simia, an ape, whence our English .s/,„/„„, beconu^ a common 

 word since Darwinism has been so much discussed. -Lut. /.^ittaculus, a little parrot 

 dnninutiveof yi.s7',7,(n(,<. See iSitla, No. 57. ' 



S. cris-ta-tel'-lus. Lat, diminutive of rn's/()(»s, crested. 

 S. pyg-mae'-tjs. See s;i/„, Xo. t',\. 



This is .^•. .7,/„/.sr/m/;,»s of the orig. cd. ; but Alra pyijiiuta Gm. is based on the younc 

 of the same si)ecies, called ,S'. cuasini by Coues. 

 S. pus-n'-liis. See Sllln, No. 00. 

 Pty-ch6-rham'-phus a-leij'-tl-cus. G 



be 



Ik ; wel 



is known of other 

 will be found to gro 



r. TTil genitive Trrvxis. a fold, and pdfi<pos, th 

 iihng to the wriidded covering of the bill; which, l)y analogy with wl 



Kit 



species, may be taketi as an indication that the soft i)art concerned 

 some kind of e.xcresceiK 



of the Aleutian Islands, — the country of the people culled AleuL 



•c, not yet discovered. — Lat. akudc 



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