96 CHECK LIST OF NOETH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



578. Cyrtonyx massena (Less.) Gould. B 477. c 394. R 485. 



Massena Partridge. 



579. Coturnix dactylisonans Meyer. B . c . R . 



Migratory Quail (imported). 



580. Squatarola helvetica (L.) Cuv. B 510. c 395. R 513. 



Black-bellied Plover ; Bull-head. 



581. Charadrius dominicus Mull. B 503. c 390. R 515. 



American Golden Plover. 



582. Charadrius dominicus fulvus (Gm.) Ridg. B . c . R 5i5a. (!A.) 



Asiatic Golden Plover. 



583. Charadrius pluvialis L. B . c . R 514. (G.) 



European Golden Plover. 



578. Cyr-t5'-nyx mas-se'-na. Gr. Kvpros, bent, curved, crooked, and uj/u|, a claw, nail ; related 



to Lat. uncus, a hook. To the French Marshal Andre' Massena, Prince d' Essling. 



579. Co-tur'-nix dac-tyl-I'-s6n-ans. Lat. coturnix, a quail; onomatopoeic, a sono vocis, 



from the sound of the voice, just as we have invented " bob-white " and " whip-poor- 

 will." Lat. dactyl isonans, sounding a dactyle. The dactyle, in poetry, is afoot con- 

 sisting of a long and two short syllables ; from SO.KTV\OS, the finger, which has a long 

 and two short joints. Sono, I sound; sonorous, &c. 



This bird, lately imported, has become naturalized, with the same right to a place 

 in the list that Passer domcsticus has acquired. 



580. Squa-ta-rS'-la hel-ve'-tl-ca. Of squatarola the authors learned little, until a note from 



Professor Newton supplied the desired information, in substance as follows : As a 

 generic term it is of course from the Linnsean Trinaa squatarola, and Linnreus obviously 

 got his trivial name from Willughby, who says (Ornith., ed. 1676, p. 229), " Pluvialis 

 cinerea. Squatarola Venetiis dicta, ubi frequens est. The Gray Plover." The word is not 

 to be found in the best Italian dictionaries ; but Salvador!, in his Fauna d' Italia Uccelli, 

 seems to acknowledge it as a genuine word ; though probably it is only local in its 

 application. It may possibly have to do with the regular Italian squartare, "to quarter." 

 Lat. helcetica, from ancient Helvetia, now Switzerland; the bird is still often called 

 " Swiss plover." The Helvetians were probably so called from their fairness, with 

 flaxen or auburn hair ; helvus, helveolus (related to gilvus), meaning some such color. 



581. Char-ad'-n-us dom-m'-i-cus. [Ch- hard; second syllable long.] Gr. x a P^P tos < some 



kind of a bird, supposed to be a plover, and the same as rpo'x'A-os ; from xa.pa.8pa, the 

 watery places inhabited by such birds. As used by Aristotle, the word apparently 

 refers to Oedicnemus crepitans. Lat. dominicus, see Dendraca, No. 129. 



This stands as C. fulvus var. virginicus in the orig. ed., but Miiller's name has 

 priority over Gmelin's. See Ridg., Pr. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, p. 9; and Cassin, Pr. Pliila. 

 Acad., 1864, p. 246. 



582. C. d. ful'-vus. Lat. fulv us, fulvous, yellow. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since discovered in Alaska. See Coues, in Elliot's Prybilov 

 Report, 1875, 179 ; and Birds N. W., 1874, p. 450, note. 



583. C. pluv-T-a'-lis. Lat. pluvialis, rainy, pertaining to rain, bringing rain; pluvia, rain; ptuo, 



to rain : the bird was supposed in some way related to rain or the rainy season : " plover " 

 is the same. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; ascertained to occur in Greenland ; see Newt., Man. N. H. 

 Greenl., 1875, p. 101 ; Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. 374. 



