98 CHECK LIST OF NOETH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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



Mountain Plover. 



593. Vanelhis cristatus Meyer. B . c . R 512. (G.) 



Lapwing. 



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



Surf Bird. 



595. Hsematopus ostrilegus L. B . c . R 506. (G.) 



European Oyster-catcher. 



596. Haematopus palliatus Temm. B 512. c 404. R 507. 



American Oyster-catcher. 



597. Haematopus niger Pall. B 513. c 405. R 508. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



598. Strepsilas interpres (L.) 111. B 5^15. c 406. R 509. 



Turnstone. 



599. Strepsilas interpres melanocephalus (Vig.) Coues. B 516. c 406a. R 510. 



Black-headed Turnstone. 



592. PSd-as-o'-cys mon-ta'-nus. The word Podasocys is simply the transliteration of the 



familiar Homeric epithet of Achilles, " swift as to his feet" TTO'SOS w/ci/s 'AxiAAeus. 

 Lat. montanus, pertaining to mountains. 



593. Va-nel'-lus cris-ta'-tus. Lat. vanus, empty, void, vain, whence vaneUiis, 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<f>p6s, surf, sea-foam, and d(a, I live ; badly formed, but 



euphonious. 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<p/&>, I foam. Lat. virgata, striped, streaked; virga, a rod, 

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



595. Haem-at'-S-pus os-trl'-le'-gus. Gr. alp.a.Toirovs, red-footed ; aTjua, genitive aYjuaros, blood, 



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

 would be a.ifjia.T<air6s, meaning red-eyed. Lat. ostrea, an oyster, and lego, I collect, 

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

 agreeable \vit\\frugilegus, for example, and conformable with the actual word ostriferus 

 in the following lines : 



Quam quibus in patriam ventosa per aequora 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-ll-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. nlg'-gr. Lat. niger, black. 



598. Strep'-sMas in-ter'-pr6s. Gr. <rTpe<j>a>, future o-rpfyw, I turn ; o-rpfyis, a turning over ; 



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

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

 prce and eo, I go before. 



599. S. i. mei-an-S-ceph'-al-us. Gr. p.e\as, genitive jueWoy, black, and K^a.\-}\, head. 



