NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
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' 'hinaria, (Given before.) Linnet. 
- caneseens. Hoary. Mealy Linnet. 
Loxia. (Given before.) Crossbill. 
—- leucoptera. Asvkos white, and a wing. White-winged CrossbilL 
Coccpzus, Koxxyfw to cry like a Cucoo. Coccyzet. 
■— Americanus. American. Virginian Coccyzet. 
Lagopus. (Given before.) Ptarmigan. 
——— rupeMris. Of or belonging to rocks. Rock Ptarmigan. 
Puffinm ? Shearwater. 
- fuUginosus. Fuiigo, soot. Dusky Shearwater.' 
Lestris, (Given before.) Skua, 
--—- Ricimrdsonii. So named after Mr. Richardson. Richardson s Skua. 
Larus. (Given before.) Gull, 
— -- leucopterus. Asvxos white, a wing. Iceland Gull. 
XeTTm f Xeme. ^ 
- ■-"“>—— Sabini. Named after Mr. Sabine. Sabine’s Xeme. 
Anom. without, mvs mind.— Ed.] ■ Noddy. ' 
— - stoUda, Foolish. Black Noddy. 
Polgsticta. lloAys- much, and artyi^x a spot or brand. 
——__ Stelleri. From a proper name. 
TUrdus. Thrush. ■ ■ 
-— Wkitei. Named after Gilbert White, of Selborne, having been 
killed in Hampshire. White's Thrush. 
Plectropkanes. UXmrqov a spur, and to show. Longspur. 
---—— Lapponica. [^Of or belonging to Lapland.'—E d.] Lapland 
Longspur. 
In the derivation of the word schmniculusj perhaps the latter part of the name 
may come, by a barbarous derivation, from coh to inhabit. The derivation of 
troglodytes (the name of a people, applied to the Common Wren, from their 
similar custom of living in holes of the earth) is from rqwyXvt a den or cave, and 
or to enter. This was accidentally omitted in the first part of the Ex¬ 
planation.” The Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum gives a different derivation 
from mine for Somateria and Hmmatopus ; the former from a body, and 
rngsM to preserve, instead of from wool Or down; utrum horum mavis 
accipe the latter from myLoc blood, and mvsj instead of from om the face. I 
think this latter is right, but both hill and legs are of the same colour. Bo- 
taurus it derives from noise or clamour, and rxvgos a bull, which may, I think, 
he correct. 
The following derivations, also, not discovered by myself, are extracted from 
the Ashmolean Catalogue already alluded to (Oxford, 183d), which has been 
presented to me since the publication of my last paper :—Cygnus^ from Kww • 
