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592. Podasocys inontanus (Towns.) Coues. B sos. c 402. R 623. 

 Mountain Plover. 



693. Vanellus cristatus Me3er. b — . c — . r 812. (G.) 



Lapwing. 



694. Aphriza virgata (Gm.) Gray. B6II. c 403. r 6II. 



Surf Bird. 



695. Haematopus ostrilegus L. b — . c — . r coe. (0.) 



European Oyster-catclier. 



596. Haematopus palliatus Tcmm. b 612. c 404. r S07. 



American Oyster-catcher. 



597. Haematopus niger Fall, b 513. c 405. r sos. 



Blacit Oyster-catclier. 



598. Strepsilas interpres (L.) III. b sis. c 406. r soo. 



Turnstone. 



599. Strepsilas interpres melanocephalus (Vig.) Coucs. b sio. c 406a. r sio. 



Bladc-iieaded Turnstone. 



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692. P6d-5s-8'-cys mSn-tS'-nfis. The word Podasocys is simply the transliteration of the 



familiar Homeric epithet of Achilles, " swift as to his feet " — wdSas ukvs 'AxiWtis. — 

 Lat. montaniui, pertaining to mountains. 



693. VS-nSl'-liSs cris-t5'-tQs. Lat. vmus, empty, void, vain, whence vanellus, as a diminutive, 



for the restless, idle, and noisy bird. " In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself 

 another crest." (Tennyson.) — Lat. cristalus, crested. 



Not in the orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Rcinh., 

 Ibis, 1801, p. 0. 



604. Aph-ri'-z5 vir-gS'-t5 Gr. &<pp6s, surf, sea-foam, and (da, I live; badly formed, but 

 euphonious. Compare Ajihioilite, the Greek Venus, foam-formed. Audubon, who 

 invented the word, gives the above etymology ; but Wharton's MS. suggests more 

 direct derivation from a<ppl(tii, I foam. — Lat. virgata, 8trii)ed, streaked ; vhija, a rod, 

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



595. Ha5m-5t'-8-pus Ss-trI'-18-gQs. Gr. al/xaToirovs, red-footed ; ofjuo, genitive oT/tarot, blood, 



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

 would be ai'/uarcuiri^t, meaning red-eyed. — Lat. ostira, an oyster, and lego, I collect, 

 gather. Conmionly written ostrateijus ; but the above seems to be the correct form, 

 agreeable yi'\\h fnuiilefins, for example, and conformable with the actual word ostriferus 

 in the following lines : — 



Quiim quibus in patriam vcntosa per tequora vectis, 

 Pontus et osti-i/eri fauces tentantur Abydi. — Verg., Georg., i, 200, 207. 

 Not in orig. ed. Only North American as occurring in Greenland. See Ibis, 1801, p. 9. 



596. H. pal-II-S'-tQs. Lat. palllalu.i, wearing the pdllium, 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. 



607. H. nlg'-8r. Lat. ni'grr, black. 



698. Strep'-sM3s in-t5r'-pres. Gr. <TTpi<pa>, future trrp^u, I turn ; ijTp^n, a turning over ; 



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

 agent; literally, nn interpreter, that is, inter-prator \ prtetor, a Roman magistrate, from 

 pro: and to, I go before. 



699. S. i. mCl-Sn-fi-ceph'-Sl-iis. Gr. h4k<is, genitive fi^Kai/of, black, and Kf^aA^, head. 



