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584. JEgialites vocifems (L.) Cass. B 504. c 397. R 516. 



Kildeer Ring Plover. 



585. JEgialites wilsonius (Ord) Cass. B 506. c 398. R 522. 



Wilson's Ring Plover. 



586. JEgialites semipalmatus (Bp.) Cab. B 507. c 399. R 517. 



Semipalmated Ring Plover; Ring-neck. 



587. JEgialites melodus (Ord) Cab. B 508. c 400, 400a. R 520. 



Piping Ring Plover; Ring-neck. 



588. JEgialites melodus circumcinctus Ridg. B . c 400. R 520. (?) 



Belted Piping Plover. 



589. JEgialites hiaticula (L.) Boie. B . c . R 518. 



European Ring Plover. 



590. JEgialites cnronicus (Gm.) Gray. B . c 400&is. R 519. 



European Lesser Ring Plover. 



591. JEgialites cantianus nivosus (Cass.) Coues. B 509. c 401. R 521. 



Snowy Ring Plover. 



584. Aeg-I-5Ml-tes v5-d'-fgr-Qs. Gr. aiyiaXlrijs, masculine, or alyia\?rts, feminine, or alyia- 



\f6s, an inhabitant of the seashore ; aiyia\6s, the coast, from the breaking of the waves- 

 upon it (&yvvfj.i). The name is very appropriate to these beach-birds. Both forms,. 

 cegialites, masculine, and cegialitis, feminine, are in common use ; either is perfectly 

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

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

 from dty. 



585. A. wll-sdn'-I-us. To Alexander Wilson. 



586. A. sgm-I-pal-ma'-tus. Lat. semi, half; sibilated from Gr. TJ/JLI, hemi-, a contraction of 



finurvs, half, and palmatus, palmated, web-footed ; palma, the palm of the hand, the hand 

 itself; from Gr. ira\dfj.Tj, of same meaning. The bird is conspicuously webbed between 

 the toes, in comparison with its allies. * 



587. A. mel-S'-diis. Lat. melodus, Gr. /*e\<p5<k, melodious, sweetly singing ; yue'Aos, melody, and; 



wS-f], a song, an ode. (Notice the long o, being in place of the Gr. omega with iota 

 subscript.) 



588. A. m. cir-cum-cmc'-tiis. Lat. circum, around ; cinctus, belted, girded. See Parus, No. 52. 



The black is said to form a complete necklace. 



589. A. hl-a-tl'-cfi-la. Of this word we can give no satisfactory account. It is "classic" ini 



ornithology, going back for over two centuries ; in form, it is a diminutive of hiatus r 

 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-r5n'-I-ciis. 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., ii, 1880, p. 10 ; 1881, p. 67. The bird 

 is very questionably North American. 



591. A. can-tl-a'-nus nlv-o'-sfis. Lat. Cantianus, Kentish. Lat. nivosus, snowy, in allusion 



to the color ; nix, genitive nivis, snow ; Gr. vty, vupos, snow. 



