100 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



607. Gallinago media Leach. B . c . R 526. (G.) 



European Snipe. 



608. Gallinago wilsoni (Temm.) Bp. B 523. c 414. R 526a. 



American Snipe; Wilson's Snipe. 



609. Macrorhamphus grisens (Gin.) Leach. B 524. c 415. R 527. 



Red-breasted Snipe ; Gray-back Snipe ; Dowitcher. 



610. Macrorhamphus griseus scolopaceus (Sa}-) Coues. B525. C4i5a. R527a. 



Western Red-breasted Snipe. 



611. Micropalama himantopus (Bp.) Bd. B 536. c 416. R 528. 



Stilt Sandpiper. 



612. Ereunetes pusillus (L.) Cass. B 535. c 417. R 541. 



Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



613. Ereunetes pusillus occidentalis (Lawr.) Coues. B . c 4i7a. R 54ia. (?) 



Western Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



614. Actodromas minutilla (V.) Coues. B 532. c 418. R 538. 



Least Sandpiper. 



615. Actodromas bairdi Coues. B . c 419. R 537. 



Baird's Sandpiper. 



607. Gal-lm-a'-go me'd'-i-a. Lat. gallus, a cock, gallina, a hen, gallinula, a chicken, gallinarius 



or gaUinaceus, relating to poultry; the present word is an arbitrary derivative, as a 

 Latin word, though the forms gallinago, gallinazo, and others are found in different lan- 

 guages. It is formed from gallina like fringittago from fringilla, or like virago from vir. 

 Lat. medius, median, medium, in the middle (in size, between certain other species). 

 Not in the orig. ed. ; only North American as occurring in Greenland. 



608. G. wll'-son-i. To Alexander Wilson. 



609. Mac-ro-rham'-phus gris'-e-us. Gr. /j.a.Kp6s, great, large, long; and pd^os, beak, bill. 



Notice that the p is aspirated, requiring to be followed by h, as many writers forget. 

 Griseus, gray, grisly, grizzly ; not classic ; a late Latinizing of an Anglo-Saxon word ; 

 compare Fr. gris and Gr. ypavs or ypyvs, yepaids, ytpas or yrjpas all these relate to age, 

 when people grow gray. The word " grous " or " grouse," " the gray bird," may be 

 related. See Leucosticte, No. 205. 



610. M. g. scol-6-pa'-ce-us. The word is formed as an adjective from scolopax, which see, 



No. 606; scolopaceous, scolopacine, snipe-like. 



611. Mic-rS-pal'-a-ma him-an'-to-pus. Gr. /j.iKp6s, small, and ira\d/j.T], the palm, the hand; 



same as the Lat. palma ; referring to the webbing between the toes. Himantopus, see 

 No. 601. 



612. E-reu-ne'-tes pus-il'-lus. Gr. fpevvnr-fis, a searcher ; from the way in which the bird 



probes with its bill. Lat. pusillus, puerile ; see Sitta, No. 60. 



613. E. p. 5c-ci-den-ta'-lis. Lat. occidentalis, western. See Dendrceca, No. 113. 



614. Ac-tS'-drom-as min-u-tll'-la. Gr. d/cr^, the seashore; from &ywm, &yca, I break, as the 



waves do there ; Spo/j.ds, rapidly running see Ammodramus, No. 238, and Eudromias, No. 

 591. Lat. minutus, small, minute, diminutive, of which minutilla is an arbitrary diminu- 

 tive; minuo, I lessen, diminish ; it ought to have been minutula. 



615. A. bair'di. To S. F. Baird. 



