96 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



578. Cyrtonyx massena (Less.) Gould, b 477. c 394. R 485. 



Massena Partridge. 



579. Coturnix dactylisonans Meyer, b — . c — . R — . 



Migratory Quail (imported). 



580. Squatarola helvetica (L.) Cuv, b 510. c 395, R 513. 



Black-bellied Plover ; Bull-head. 



581. Charadrms dominicns Mlill. b 503. c 396. R 515. 



American Golden Plover. 



582. Charadrius dominicus fulvns (Gm,) Ridg, b — . c — . R 5i5a. (!a.) 



Asiatic Golden Plover. 



583. Charadrms pluvialis L. b — . c — . R 514. (g.) 



European Golden Plover. 



578. Cyr-t5'-nyx mas-se'-na. Gr. Kvpros, bent, curved, crooked, and uw^, a claw, nail ; related 



to Lat. uncus, a hook. — To the French Marshal Andre' Massena, Prince d'Essling. 



579. Co-tur'-nlx dac-tyl-l'-s6n-ans. Lat. cotumix, a quail; onomatopoeic, a sono vocis, 



from tlie sound of the voice, just as we have invented " bob-white " and " whip-poor- 

 will." — Lat. dactylisonans, sounding a dactyle. The dactyle, in poetry, is afoot con- 

 sisting of a long and two short syllables ; from SaKTvKos, the finger, which has a long 

 and two short joints. Sono, I sound ; sonorous, &c. 



This bird, lately imported, has become naturalized, with the same right to a place 

 in the list that Passer domrsticvs has acquired. 



580. Squa-ta-ro'-la hel-ve'-ti-ca. Of squatarola the authors learned little, until a note from 



Professor Newton supplied the desired information, in substance as follows : As a 

 generic term it is of course from the Linnaean Tringa squatarola, and Linnasus obviously 

 got his trivial name from Willughby, who says (Ornith., ed. 1676, p. 229), — " Pluvialis 

 cinerea. Squatarola Venetiis dicta, ubi frequens est. The Gray Plover." The word is not 

 to be found in the best Italian dictionaries ; but Salvador!, in his Fauna d' Italia — Uccelli, 

 seems to acknowledge it as a genuine word ; though probably it is only local in its 

 application. It may possibly have to do with the regular Italian squartare, " to quarter." 

 — La.t. helretica, from ancient Helvetia, now Switzerland; the bird is still often called 

 " Swiss plover." The Helvetians were probably so called from their fairness, with 

 flaxen or auburn hair ; helvus, helveolus (related to cjilvus), meaning some such color. 



581. Char-ad'-rT-us d6m-in'-I-cus. [Ch- hard; second syllable long.] Gr. xapa^pioj, some 



kind of a bird, supposed to be a plover, and the same as Tpo'xiA.os ; from xapaSpa, the 

 watery places inhabited by such birds. As used by Aristotle, the word apparently 

 refers to Oedicnemus crepitans. — Lat. dominicus, see Dendraca, No. 129. 



This stands as C. fulvns var. virginicus in the orig. ed., but MUUer's name has 

 priority over Gmelin's. See Ridg., Pr. Nat. Mas., ii, 1880, p. 9 ; and Cassin, Pr. Phila. 

 Acad., 1864, p. 246. 



582. C. d, ful'-vus, Jjnt. fiilvus, fulvous, yellow. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since discovered in Alaska. See Coui •. in Elliot's Prybilov 

 Report, 1875, 179 ; and Birds N. W., 1874, p. 450, note. 



583. C. pluv-I-aMTs. Lat. pluvialis, rainy, pertaining to rain, bringing rain ; pluvia, rain ; pluo, 



to rain : the bird was supposed in some way related to rain or the rainy season : " plover" 

 is the same. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; ascertained to occur in Greenland ; see Newt., Man. N. H. 

 Greenl., 1875, p. 101 ; Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. 374. 



