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CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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678. Cyrtonyx massena (Less.) Gould, b 477. c 394. u 488. 



Masaena Partridge. 



679. Cotumix dactylisonans Meyer, b — . c — . R — . 



Migratory Quail (imported). 



680. Squatarola helvetica (L.) Cuv. b 510. c 395. R 6i3. 



Blaclc-bellled Plover; Biill-Iiead. 



681. Charadrius dominicus Miill. b sos. c 390. R 515. 



American Golden Plover. 



682. Charadrius dominicus ftilvus (Gin.) Ridg. b — . c — . R 5i5o. (!a.) 



Asiatic Golden Plover. 



683. Charadrius pluvialis L. b — . c — . r 614. (a.) 



European Golden Plover. 



678. Cyr-t8'-nyx m3s-se'-nS. Gr. Kvprds, bent, curved, crooked, nnd Sfv^, a claw, nail ; related 



to Lat. uncus, a liook. — To tlie French Marshal Andre Massena, I'rincc d'Essling. 



679. C5-tQr'-nIx d3c-tj^l-I'-s6n-Sns. Lat. cotumix, a quail; onomatopwic, a sono vocia, 



from the sound of the voice, just as wo have invented " bob-white " and " whip-poor- 

 will." — Lat. daclyllsonans, sounding a dactyle. The dactyle, in poetry, is afoot con- 

 sisting of a long and two sliort 8yllal>les ; from ScCktuAo;, t|ie finger, wliicli has a long 

 and two short joints. Sono, I sound ; sinwroiis, &e. 



This bird, lately imported, has become naturalized, with the same right to a place 

 in the list that Passer domisticus has acquired. 



680. SquS-tS-r8'-13 h8l-ve'-tl-c5. Of squatarola the authors learned little, until a note from 



Professor Newton supplied the desired information, in substance as follows : As a 

 generic term it is of course from the Linnxan Tringa squatarola, and Linnirus obviously 

 got his trivial name from Willughby, who says (Ornith., ed. 1670, p. 229), — " Pluviulis 

 cinerea. Squatarola Venetiis dicta, ubi frequens est. The Gray IMovcr." The word is not 

 to be found in the best Italian dictionaries ; but Salvadori, in his Fauna d' Italia — Uccelli, 

 seems to acknowledge it as a genuine word ; though probably it is only local in its 

 application. It may possibly have to do with the regular Italian squartare, " to quarter." 

 — Lat. hf'lretira, from ancient Ilehetia, now Switzerland; the bird is still often called 

 " Swiss plover." The Helvetians were probably so called from their fairness, with 

 flaxen or auburn hair; helvus, helvcolus (related Ko gilvus), meaning some such color. 



681. Ch5r-5d'-rI-iSs d6m-In'-I-ciSs. |CIi- hard; second syllable long.] Gr. xop'f'p'o*! some 



kind of a bird, supposed to be a plover, and the same as rprfx'^*" ! from xapiipa, the 

 watery places inhabited by such birds. As used by Aristotle, the word apparently 

 refers to Oedicnemus crepitans. — Lat. dominicus, see Dendraca, No. 129. 



This stands as C. fnlviis var. vinjinicus in the orig. ed., but Midler's name has 

 priority over Gmelin's. See Ridg., Pr. Nat. Mus., li, 1880, p. 9; and Cassin, Pr. Phila. 

 Acad., 1864, p. 246. 



682. C. d. fai'-vfla. Lat. //(/cms, fulvous, yellow. 



Not in the orig. ed. Since discovered in Alaska. See Coues, in Elliot's Prybilov 

 Report, 1875, 179; and Birds N. W., 1874, p. 450, note. 



683. C. plQv-I-S'-lIs. Lat. pluvialis, rainy, pertaining to rain, bringing rain ; pluria, rain ; pltio, 



to rain : the bird was supposed in some way related to rain or the rainy season : " plover" 

 is the same. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; ascertained to occur in Greenland ; see Newt., Man. N. H. 

 Greenl., 1875, p. 101 ; Freke, Zoiilogist, September, 1881, p. 874. 



