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616. Actodromas macnlata (V.) Coues. B 531. c 420. R 534. 



Pectoral Sandpiper. 



617. Actodromas bonapartii (Schl.) Coues. B 533. c 421. R 536. 



Wliite-rumped Sandpiper. 



618. Actodromas cooperi (Bd.) Coues. B 527. c 422. R 535. (?) 



Cooper's Sandpiper. 



619. Actodromas acuminata (Horsf.) Ridg. B . c . R 533. (!A.) 



Sharp-tailed Sandpiper. 



620. Arquatella maritima (Briinn.) Bd. B 528. c 423. R 530. 



Purple Sandpiper. 



621. Arquatella couesi Ridg. B . c . R 531. 



Aleutian Sandpiper. 



622. Arquatella ptilocnemis (Coues) Ridg. B . c 426&w. R 532. 



Prybilov Sandpiper. 



623. Pelidna alpina (L.) Boie. B . c . R 539. (G.) 



European Dunlin. 



616. A. ma-cul-a'-ta. Lat. maculatus, spotted; macula, a spot. 



617. A. bo-na-par'-tl-i. To Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano and Canino. 



618. A. coop'-gr-i. To William Cooper, Esq. Only one specimen known. 



619. A. ac-u-ml-na'-ta. Lat. acuminata, acuminate, sharpened, from acumino; like aculeata 



from aculeus. See Sitta, No. 58. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since observed at St. Michael's, Alaska. See Pr. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, p. 222. 



620. Ar-qua-tel'-la mar-It'-I-ma. Arquatella, for arcuatula, is an arbitrary diminutive of arqua- 



tus, bent, bowed : this is poor Latin for arcuatus, curved, arcuate ; arcuo, I bend ; arcus, 

 a bow, an arc. It refers to the slightly curved bill. Lat. maritimus, maritime ; mare, 

 the sea. 



621. A. m. coues'-i. To Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. The name of this person is Norman- 



French, and is still not infrequently found in the north of France, pronounced in two 

 syllables, with the grave accent on the last : Cou-es Coo-ayz. On the removal of his 

 ancestors to the Isle of Wight, the pronunciation naturally became corrupted into Cowz. 

 The original spelling, though sometimes changed to Cowes, has been preserved in the 

 family, no grown male members of which are known to be living in the United States 

 excepting the person here in mention and his brother, Dr. S. F. Coues, U. S. N. The 

 meaning of the word is unknown to us. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since described, from Alaska, Bull. Nutt. Club, v, 1880, p. 160. 



622. A. m. ptfl-oc-ne'-mls. Gr. trri\ov, a feather, and KV-TJ/JLIS, a greave, boot ; the crus being 



feathered to the heel. 



This is the Tringa crassirostris of the orig. ed., very wrongly so named ; also, it is 

 T. gracilis, Harting. See Coues, Elliott's Prybilov Islands, 1875. 



623. PSl-id'-na al-pi'-na. ? Gr. ire\i8v6s, gray; from ircXos, some dark color. Lat. Alpina, 



Alpine ; Alpes, Alps. See Eremophila, No. 82. 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. Only North American as occurring in Green- 

 land. See Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, p. 103, where the Dunlin of 

 Greenland is recognized as distinct from var. americana. 



