SHORE BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 385 
in different colour and semi-palmated feet ; yet Coues returns this 
bird under the name of pusilla to the old group, and without 
giving his reasons, which no doubt are good, if known, but un- 
known cannot stand before Hutchens, Nuttail, Richardson, Wil- 
son and Buonaparte. In his key of North American birds had he 
put the first discoverer’s naine to the specific, as he has done to 
the generic name, it would have added much to the value of a 
very useful work. Naturalists owe him much for sweeping away 
the too numerous genera in the gulls and penguin ducks as Dar- 
win calls them. I mean the very restricted genus of Scoter so 
like in eolour, bills and habits. 
List classea after Dr. Coues. 
Squartolinas helvitica—Beetle head. 
Chavadius fulvus—Golden plover. 
Meialitis vociferus— Kildeer. 
AMeialitis semi-palmatus—Ring neck. 
Agialitis melodus—Piping plover. 
Strepsilus interpres—Turnstone. 
Recurvirostra Americana A voset. 
Machtoramphus griseus—Red breasted snipe. 
Ereunictes pusillus—Semi-palmated peep. 
Tringa minutella—Least peep. 
Tringa bairdis—Baird’s peep. 
Tringa maculata—Pectoral sand piper. 
Tringa maritina—Purple sand piper. 
Tringa subarquata—Curlew sand piper. 
Calidris arenaria—Sanderling. 
Limosa fedora—Marbled godwit. 
Limosa Hudsonia—Hudson Bay godwit. 
Totanus semi-palmatus—Willet. 
Totanus melanoleucus—Great yellow shank. 
Totanus chloropus—Lesser yellow leg. 
Totanus solitarius—Solitary tattler. 
Tringoides inaculata—Spotted tattler. 
Actiturus bartremius—Bartram’s tattler. 
Tryngites rufessens—Red breasted sand piper. 
Numenius longirostres—Long billed curlew. 
