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584. ^Egialites vociferus (L.) Cass. B 504. c 397. R 510. 



Kildeer Ring Plover. 



585. JEgialites wilsonius (Ord) Cass. B 50G. c 398. K 522. 



Wilson's Ring Plover. 



586. .^Egialites semipalmatus (Bp.) Cab. B 507. c 399. R517. 



Semipalmated Ring Plover ; Ring-neck. 



587. ^Egialites rn.elod.us (Ord) Cab. B 508. c 400, 400a. R 520. 



Piping Ring Plover; Ring-neck. 



588. ^Egialites melodus circumcinctus Ridg. B . c 400a. R 520. (?) 



Belted Piping Plover. 



589. ^gialites hiaticula (L.) Boie. B . c . R 518. 



European Ring Plover. 



590. ^gialites curonicus (Gm.) Gray. B . c 400&is. R 519. 



European Lesser Ring Plover. 



591. ^Egialites cantiaims nivosus (Cass.) Coues. B 509. c 401. R 521. 



Sno\vy Ring Plover. 



584. Aeg-I-a'-lI-tes v5-cl'-f6r-us. Gr. alyta\tr^s, masculine, or alyia\?ns, feminine, or alyia- 

 \evs, an inhabitant of the seashore ; alyia\6s, the coast, from the breaking of the waves 

 upon it (&yvvt*.i). The name is very appropriate to these beach-birds. Both forms,. 

 cegialites, masculine, and (egialitis, feminine, are in common use ; either is perfectly 

 correct ; but as Boie wrote ceyialites originally, this form should be preserved. Lat, 

 vociferus, vociferous ; vox, genitive vocis, voice, and fe.ro, I bear ; vox digammated 

 from &ty. 



535. A. wll-son'-i-iis. To Alexander Wflson. 



536. A. sem-I-pal-ma'-tus. Lat. semi, half; sibilated from Gr. fai, hemi-, a contraction of 



tfnurvs, half, and palmatus, palmated, web-footed ; palma, the palm of the hand, the hand 

 itself; from Gr. iraA.efyoj, of same meaning. The bird is conspicuously webbed between; 

 the toes, in comparison with its allies. 



587. A. mel-o'-dus. Lat. melodus, Gr. (te\y86s, melodious, sweetly singing; jueAos, melody, and 



uSri, a song, an ode. (Notice the long o, being in place of the Gr. omega with iota 

 subscript.) 



588. A. m. cir-cum-cmc'-tus. Lat. circum, around ; cinctus, belted, girded. See Parus, No. 52. 



The black is said to form a complete necklace. 



589. A. hi-a-ti'-cu-la. Of this word we can give no satisfactory account. It is "classic" in 



ornithology, going back for over two centuries ; in form, it is a diminutive of hiatus,. 

 from Mo, I yawn, gape. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since ascertained to inhabit Continental North America, as- 

 well as long known in Greenland. See Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, p. 49 seq. 



590. A. cu-r5n'-I-cus. Lat. Curonicus, Curonian, of the region formerly called Curonia. 



The bird described as sEg. microrhynchus, Ridg., Am. Nat., viii, 1874, p. 109, has since 

 been identified with the above. See Pr. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, p. 10 ; 1881, p. 67. The bird" 

 is very questionably North American. 



591. A. can-tl-a'-nus n!v-5'-sus. Lat. Cantianus, Kentish. Lat. nivosus, snowy, in allusion 



to the color ; nix, genitive nivis, snow ; Gr. vfy, vi<t>os, snow. 



