98 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



592. Podasocys montanus (Towns.) Coues. B 505. c 402. R 523. 



Mountain Plover. 



593. Vanellus cristatus Mej^er. B . c . R 512. (G.) 



Lapwing. 



594. Aphriza virgata (Gm.) Gray. B 511. c 403. R 511. 



Surf Bird. 



595. Haematopus ostrilegus L. B . c . R 506. (G.) 



European Oyster-catcher. 



596. Hsematopus palliatus Temm. B 512. c 404. R 507. 



American Oyster-catcher. 



597. Hsematopus niger Pall. B 513. c 405. R 508. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



598. Strepsilas interpres (L.) 111. B515. c 406. R soo. 



Turnstone. 



599. Strepsilas interpres melanocephalns (Vig.) Coues. B SIG. c 406a. R 510. 



Black-headed Turnstone. 



592. Pod-as-6'-cys mon-ta'-nus. The word Podasocys is simply the transliteration of the 



familiar Homeric epithet of Achilles, "swift as to his feet" iroSas UKVS 'AxiAAevy. 

 Lat. montanus, pertaining to mountains. 



593. Va-nel'-lus cris-ta'-tus. Lat. vanus, empty, void, vain, whence vanellus, as a diminutive, 



for the restless, idle, and noisy bird. " In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself 

 another crest." (Tennyson.) Lat. cristatus, crested. 



Not in the orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Reinh., 

 Ibis, 1801, p. 9. 



594. Aph-ri'-za vlr-ga'-ta. Gr. a(pp6s, surf, sea-foam, and aca, I live ; badly formed, but 



euphonious. Compare Aphrodite, the Greek Venus, foam-formed. Audubon, who 

 invented the word, gives the above etymology ; but Wharton's MS. suggests more 

 direct derivation from d$picu, I foam. Lat. virgata, striped, streaked; virga, a rod, 

 green sprout, osier ; from vireo, I am green. 



595. Haem-at'-6-pus 6s-trl'-le-gus. Gr. aifj.a.TOTrovs, red-footed ; aT/ua, genitive a'/yuaros, blood, 



and irovs, foot. The word is commonly but wrongly accented on the penult ; but that 

 would be alfj.aTcaTr6s, meaning red-eyed. Lat. ostrca, an oyster, and lego, I collect, 

 gather. Commonly written ostralegus ; but the above seems to be the correct form, 

 agreeable withfrugileyus, for example, and conformable with the actual word ostrifirus 

 in the following lines : 



Quam quibus in patriam ventosa per sequora vectis, 

 Pontus et ostrifcri fauces tentantur Abydi. Verg., Georg., 5, 206, 207. 

 Not in orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Ibis, 1861, p. 9. 



596. H. pal-ll-a'-tus. Lat. palliatus, wearing the pallium, a kind of cloak ; to " palliate " is 



literally to hide, cover up as with a cloak. The allusion here is to the particular colora- 

 tion of the bird. See Contopus, No. 380. 



597. H. nig'-gr. Lat, niger, black. 



598. Strep'-si-las in-ter'-pres. Gr. <rrpf<pca, future crrpfyco, I turn ; o-Tpetyis, a turning over ; 



and \as, a stone ; literally " turn-stone." Lat. interpres, a go-between, factor, broker, 

 agent; literally, an interpreter, that is, inter-praetor- praetor, a Roman magistrate, from 

 pros and to, I go before. 



599. S. i. ml-an-5-c6ph'-al-us. Gr. ju.tA.as, genitive (*e\avos, black, and Ke^aA.^, head. 



