Ao 1 I COUES'S ORNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY PHALAROPODID^. 879 



1870. KUMLEIN, A. L. Oil the Habits of Steganopus wilsoui. <^ Field and Forest, ii, 

 No. 1, July, 187(5, pp. 11, 1-i. 



IWO. NiciioLLS, R. P. Gray Pbaralope [Plialaropus fulicarius] iicar Kiugsbridge. 

 <^ Zoologist, 2(1 ser., xi, Feb., 187G, p. 4602. 



1877. Nklson, E. W. a Contribution to the Biography of Wilson's Phalarope [Ste- 



ganopus wllsoiii]. <^ Bull. Xutl. Oinith. Cluh, ii, No. 2, Apr., 1877, i»p. :5S-43. 

 Very full on its Inibits, esp(j(;iall.>- on its brcediug. 



1878. CouKS, E. The Noithein Phalarope [L()bipcs hyperborcus] in North Carolina. 



< Bull. Xutl. Oniith. Cluh, iii, No. 1, .Tan., Ls78, pp. 40, 41. 

 1878. MuUDOCH, J. Phalarope,— An Etyiiiologieal Blunder. < IJuU. Xutt. Oniith. 

 Club, iii. No. :3, July, 1878, pp. UA), I'A. 



Contends that tho word should ho written Phalaridopus, beinj^ from t/)aAapt?, gen. -I'Sos, "a 

 coot", and TToOs, "foot", nottlu? adj. (j>a\apbi, "white", as " PhalaroiJtis " would seem to indi- 

 cate. " Novertheless, " as tho writer, who has well taken his point, continues, ' ' the name has 

 served so long as a distinguishing mark of tho genus, that it would be by no me.ins advisable 

 to attempt to make an exchange for the etymologically correct form "; especially as the form 

 " Phalaropus " represents no very great degree of contraction. Moreover, as the writer does 

 not state, c^oAapl?, a coot, and tl>a\apo^, bright, white, shining, or otherwise conspicuous, are 

 etymologically tho s.amo, tho former substaulivc being derived from the latter adjective and 

 having been applied to the bird b(^caus(! of its conspicuously colored bill ; there being tlus ad- 

 ditional reason for not insisting upon the change. Brisson certainly invented "Phalaropus" 

 to mean "coot-footed," but the ijidXapa of tho Greeks were any ornaments with which a thing 

 might be furnished, as tho gems of a tiara, the studs of a helmet, the caparisons of a horse, 

 etc. ; and " Phalaropus" is therefore not so far out of the way after all, for a bird whose feet 

 are remarkably "om.amented" or appendaged. 



1878. WiLLiSTON, S. W. Ou the adult male plumage of Wilson's Phalarope. (Ste- 

 ganopus Wilsoni Sab. ) <[ Trans. Kansas Acad. Science for 1877-8, vi, 1878, p. 39. 

 "What has hitherto been considered the young plumage of this bird, has been confounded 

 with [that of] the adult male." Description follows, with other remarks. 



