CERTHIIl)^. 45 



[Genus PROGNE, Boie, Ms, 1826, p. 971. 



Proffne = JJpoKvri, daughter of Pandion, ting of Athens, sister of Philomela 

 and wife of Tereus, mythologically changed into a Swallow. From the root of 

 TrepKv6$ = speckled, Trepiri) = a perch, &c. 



Progne purpurea. Purple Martin. 



Hirundo purpurea^ Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 344 (1766). 



Progne purpurea^ Gray, p. 34 ; Newton, ii. p. 361 ; Gould, i. 



iutr. p. li. 

 Hirundo purpurea, Harting, p. 125. 



Purpurea = purple. 



One is said to have been shot near Kingstown, co. Dublin, 

 early in 1840. Common over the greater part of America ; a 

 summer visitor in North America.] 



Section OSCINES CURVIROSTRES. 



Family CERTHIID^. 



Genus CERTHIA, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 184 (1766). 



Certhia, the late Latin form of icipBios, a bird known to Aristotle. 



OertMa familiaris. Teee-creepee. 



Certhia familiaris, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 184 (1766). 



Certhia familiaris, Nauru, v. p. 398 ; Macg. iii. p. 33 ; Hewit- 

 son, p. 243 ; Gray, p. 39 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 165 ; id. 

 • ed. 3, ii. p. 170; Newton, i. p. 468; Gould, ii. pi. 64; 

 Harting, p. 20 ; Dresser, iii. p. 195. 



Common Creeper, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 158. 



Familiaris = friendly, from fandlia = the household. 



Resident in all the wooded districts of the United 

 Kingdom, except in the outer Scotch isles. The Tree-creeper, 

 or one of its climatic varieties, occurs throughout the Palse- 

 arctic and Nearctic Regions. 



