CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMEBICAN BIRDS. 



871. Uria grylle (L.) Briinn. b 720. c «3i. r 76O. 



Black Guillemot; Sea Pigeon. 



872. Uria columba (Pall.) Cass, b 727. c 002. li 76i. 



Pigeon Guillemot. 



873. Uria carbo (Pall.) P,nlt. b 728. c G33. r 702. 



Sooty Guillemot. 



874. Lomvia troile (L.) Bidt. b 729, 730. c 634. R 763. 



Common Guillemot; Murre. 



875. Lomvia troile californica (Brj.) Coucs. b — . c - 



California Guillemot. 



876. Loinvi£', arra (Pall.) Coucs. B 731. c G35. R 7G4, 764a. 



Tliick-billed Guillemot. 



877. Utamania torda (L.) Lcacb. b 711. c gi6. r 742. 



Razor-billed Auk. 



878. Alca impennis L. b 710. c 615. r 741. 



Great Auk. 



133 



R 763a. (?) 



871. 



872. 

 873. 

 874. 



U -rt-a gryl - e. Gesner and others state tliat oip^a Is tl.o Greek name of a guillemot 

 or so.ne otl.er water birj. Uria occurs all through ornitholo,^- from Gesner and wa.J 

 n,a,le a genus by Br.sson in 17(iO. The n.eaning we do not know; perhaps akin to 

 ru.nun, Skr. nan, water. - OV/. is said to be from Gr. yp.KXi(., I grunt; the bird has 

 been ealle.l ^ibdans by some ; but ,jrisla and nrylle are X. European names. 



U. c61-um'-ba. Lat. a,lumb„, a pigeon, applied in the same way that we call the bird 

 sea-pigeon ni English. 



U. car-bo. Eat. ™w,„, a coal, .harcoal ; here used in allusion to the uniformly sooty 

 color, as if the bird were cliarred. ^ -^ 



Lom'-vl-a tro-i'-le. Lnnuria and hmria are two of many forms in which is found spelled 

 he ^..macular name of the bird, in Scotch. Fa,roese, and related languages; as Dan 



La e. by Brandt for the generic name. - Troik, on the contrary, may be of classic origin 

 Troilus benig the son of I'riam ; also u..ed as synonymous with Trojan ; applicatio,: i^ 



:^,r"'' ;^ '::;:r.'^ '?': j-r^^r "^"-^'y -^ -""i""-"t toT.".^, t.. ic^ 



875, 

 876. 



lander." Briiimich wrote it Tmille in 17(j"| (Om. Bor.' p. 



877. 



878, 



L. t. cal-t-for'-nl-ca. 



A'ot in tile oi'ij; 



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Pertaining to the State of California. 

 . I'd. Since recognized by Uidgway. 



^' uuf^'- !f: '"''", '"■ '"■'''"' "■■■" l""-^'''"^^'-i"""^T. "r a pledge in earnest of a contract 



n .lught have been applied by Pallas to a bird in such deman.l by the native!; s to 



serve as a sort of umt or standard of exchange in barter. '■ Salcrne savs the gr.at blue 



!w;:;n;i.-Mssy'""' ''•'■'" "^'•"" ""— "- '~-^' to-ti. sc;.pairo;:^ 



U-ta-man'-I-5 tor'-da. Both these words are nu.re Eatini.ations of vernacular names 

 Lx.nun.a or uU,n„n,>a was in tl... bird-books long before Eeaeh n.ade a genus of it an.l 

 so was /o,v/ or tor.h„u/r. We do not know what these words tnean, further than that th .y 



ZbinJ'r/"""". •'">;, ^"^-^ '«^"- I'l'^' P' 11")^ "Ad litora Creta. h.venitu;; 

 Huligenis Utamania dicta. 



Al'-ca im-pen'-nls. A/m is not classic, being merely a Eatini.ation of ,he vernacular 

 i.ame, found in several different forms, as alk, alrL; alka, auk, au-k. The third of these 



