CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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534. JSgialites vocifenis (L.) Cass. B604. c 397. R6I6. 

 Klldeer Ring Plover. 



585. ^gialites wilsonius (Ord) Cass, b 506. c 398. k 622. 

 Wilson's Ring Plover. 



686. ^gialites semipalmatus (Bp.) Cab. b 507. c 399. r 517. 

 Semipalmated King Plover; Ring-neclc. 



587. ^gialites melodus (Ord) Cab. b bos. c 400, 400a. r 520. 



Piping King Plover; Ring-necl£. 



588. ^gialites melodus circvimcinctus Ridg. B — . c 400a. R 820a. (?) 



Belted Piping Plover. 



589. ^gialites hiaticula (L.) Boie. b — . c — . R sis. 



European Ring Plover. 



590. ^gialites curonicus (Gm.) Gra^'. b — . C4006t». R519. 



European Lesser Ring Plover. 



591. ^gialites cantianus nivosus (Cass.) Coues. b bo9. C40i. R621. 



Snowy Ring Plover. 



5S4, A6g-I-5'-lI-t5s v5-cI'-fer-Qs. Gr. edyia\lry\i, masculine, or aXyiaKlrn, feminine, or tdyta.- 

 \tvs, an inhabitant of the seasliore ; alyia\6s, the coast, from tiie breakin)$ of the waves 

 upon it (Aycu/ui). The name is very appropriate to these beach-birds. Both forms,. 

 mjialitM, masculine, and <Ff/ialitis, feminine, are in common use ; either is perfectly 

 correct; but as Boie wrote (Ff/ialitea originally, this form should be preserved. — Lat. 

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

 from £iff. 



585, A. wIl-sOn'-T-iSs. To Alexander Wilson. 



533. A. sem-I-p51-m5'-tiSs. Lat. semi, half; sibilated from Gr. ^jui, hemi-, a contraction of 

 Vifnavs, lialf, and palmatus, palmated, web-footed ; palina, the palm of the hand, the hand 

 itself; from Gr. iraKdfiri, of same meaning. The bird is conspicuously webbed between 

 the toes, in comparison witli its allies. 



587. A. mCl-S'-diSs. Lat. melodus, Gr. fieK'fSSs, melodious, sweetly singing ; fitKos, melody, a.d 

 wSti, a song, an ode. (Notice the long o, being in place of the Gr. omega with iota 

 subscript.) 



688. A. m. cir-cutn-cinc'-tQs. Lat. ciVcum, around ; cmrtw*, bolted, girded. See Parus, No. 52. 

 The black is said to form a complete necklace. 



589. A. h!-a-tI'-ciS-ia. Of this word we can give no satisfactory account. It is " classic " in 



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

 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. cO-rfln'-I-cQs. Lat. Ciironinis, Curonian, of the region formerly called Curonia. 



The bird described as yJ-J^. mirrorhynrhis, 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. 



691. A. cSn-tl-a'-nQs nTv-8'-stSs. Lat. Cantianus, Kentish. — Lat. nivosus, snowy, in allusion 

 to the color ; nix, genitive nivis, snow ; Gr. •>(i|>, fi^o't, snow. 



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