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,5S4. -^gialites vociferns (L.) Cass. B 504. c 397. R 5i6. 



Kildeer Ring Plover. 



585. ^gialites wilsonius (Ord) Cass. B 506, c 398. R 522. 



Wilson's Ring Plover. 



586. -iEgialites semipalmatus (Bp.) Cab. B507. c 399. R517. 



Semipalmated Ring Plover ; Ring-neck. 



587. -iEgialites melodus (Ord) Cab. B 508. c 400, 400a. r 520. 



Piping Ring Plover; Ring-neck. 



588. -^gialites melodus circumcinctus Ridg. B — . c 400a. R 520a. (?) 



Belted Piping Plover. 



589. ^Egialites hiaticula (L.) Boie. b — . c — . R 5i8. 



European Ring Plover. 



590. .(Egialites curonicus (Gm.) Gra3\ B — . c 4006is. r 519. 



European Lesser Ring Plover. 



591. -<Egialites cantianus nivosus (Cass.) Coues. B 509. c 401. R 521. 



Snowy Ring Plover. 



534. Aeg-I-a'-li-tes v6-ci'-f6r-us. Gr. alyta\lTrjs, masculine, or alytaKlrts, feminine, or alyia- 

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

 upon it {ayvvfxt). The name is very appropriate to these beach-birds. Both forms. 

 cBgialites, masculine, and cefjialitis, feminine, are in common use ; either is perfectly 

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

 vociferits, vociferous ; vox, genitive vocis, voice, and fero, I bear ; vox digammated 

 from a>\f/. 



585. A. wTl-s6n'-i-ias. To Alexander Wilson. 



536. A. sem-i-pal-ma'-tus. Lat. semi, half; sibilated from Gr. ■^^j, hemi-, a contraction of 

 I'ifj.tcrvs, half, and palmatus, palmated, web-footed; palma, the palm of the hand, the hand 

 itself ; from Gr. 7ra\dp.T], of same meaning. The bird is conspicuously webbed between 

 the toes, in comparison with its allies. 



587. A. mel-o'-diis. Lat. melodus, Gr. yueAwSJs, melodious, sweetly singing ; /tte'A.os, melody, and 



wSri, a song, an ode. (Notice the long 0, being in place of the Gr. omega with iota 

 subscript.) 



588. A. m. clr-cum-cinc'-tias. Lat. ara»n, around; c/nc<;/s, belted, girded. See ParMS, No. 52. 



The black is said to form a complete necklace. 



589. A. hi-a-ti'-cii-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 hio, 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-ron'-I-cus. Lat. Curonicus, Curonian, of the region formerly called Curonia. 



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

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

 is very questionably North American. 



591. A. can-ti-a'-nus niv-o'-sus. Lat. Cantianus, Kentish. — Lat. nivosus, snowy, in allusion- 



to the color; nix, genitive nivis, snow ; Gr. vl^, vicpos, snow. 



