98 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



592. Podasocys montanus (Towns.) Coues, b 505. c 402. R 523. 



Mountain Plover. 



593. Vanellus cristatus Meyer. B — . c — . R 512. (G.) 



Lapwing. 



594. Aphriza virgata (Gm.) Gray. B 511. c 403. R 511. 



Surf Bird. 



595. Haematopus ostrilegns L. B — . c — . R 506. (g.) 



European Oyster-catcher. 



596. Haematopus palliatus Temm. b 512. c 404. r 507. 



American Oyster-catcher. 



597. HsBmatopus niger Pall, b 513. c 405. R 508. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



598. Strepsilas interpres (L.) 111. b 515. c 406. r 509. 



Turnstone. 



599. Strepsilas interpres melanocephalus (Vig.) Coues. b 516. c 406a. r 510. 



Black-headed Turnstone. 



593. P6d-as-o'-cys mon-ta'-nus. The word PocJasocijs is simply the transliteration of the 

 familiar Homeric epithet of Achilles, " swift as to his feet " — 7ro'5a$ diKvs 'AxiAAei^s. — 

 Lat. montanus, pertaining to mountains. 



593. Va-nel'-lus cris-ta'-tus. Lat. vanus, empty, void, vain, whence vanellus, as a diminutive, 



for the restless, idle, and noisy bird. " In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself 

 another crest." (Tennyson.) — Lat. cristatus, crested. 



Not in the orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Reinh., 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 9. 



594. Aph-ri'-za vir-ga'-ta. Gr. a(pp6s, surf, sea-foam, and ^a«, I live; badly formed, but 



euj^lionicnis. Compare Aphrodite, the Greek Venus, foam-formed. Audubon, who 

 invented the word, gives the above etymology ; but Wharton's MS. suggests more 

 direct derivation from a^pl(Qo,\ foam. — Lat. virgata, striped, streaked; virga, & rod, 

 green sprout, osier ; from inreo, I am green. 



595. Haem-at'-6-pus os-tri'-lg-gus. Gr. a/^uaTOToDs, red-footed ; af/ia, genitive oV/uaros, blood, 



and TToCs, foot. The word is commonly but wrongly accented on the penult ; but that 

 would be alfiaTuir6s, meaning red-eyed. — Lat. ostrea, an oyster, and lego, I collect, 

 gather. Connnonly written ostralegus ; but the above seems to be the correct form, 

 agreeable with Jhigilegus, for example, and conformable with the actual word ostriferus 

 in the following lines : — 



Quam quibus in patriam ventosa per sequora vectis, 

 Pontus et ostriferi fauces tentantur Abydi. — Verg., Georg., i, 206, 207. 

 Not in orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Ibis, 1861, p. 9. 



596. H. pal-li-a'-tus. Lat. palliatus, wearing the pallium, a kind of cloak; to "palliate" is 



literally to hide, cover up as with a cloak. The allusion here is to the particular colora- 

 tion of the bird. See Contopus, No. 380. 



597. H. nig'-€r. Lat. niger, black. 



598. Strep'-si-las In-ter'-prgs. Gr. crrpitpw, future ffTpe'ifw, I turn ; arp^is, a turning over ; 



and \a.s, a stone ; literally " turn-stone." — Lat. interpres, a go-between, factor, broker, 

 agent ; literally, an interpreter, that is, inter-prator ; prator, a Roman magistrate, from 

 prce and eo, I go before. 



599. S. i. m61-an-6-c6ph'-al-us. Gr. fj.e\as, genitive /ntKavo^, black, and K((pa\Ti, head. 



