CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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600. Reourvirostra amerioana Gm. b sit. c 407. r 066. 



American Avocet. 



601. Himantopus mezicanus (Mull.) Ord. b sis. c 408. R S67. 



Black-necked Stilt. 



602. Steganopus wilsoni (Sab.) Coues. b si9. c 409. R ses. 



WllsoD^s Phalarope. 



603. Lobipes hyperboreus (L.) Cuv. b B20. c 410. u og4. 



Northern Phalarope; Red-necked Phalarope. 



604. Phalaropus fUlicarius (L.) Bp. b 021. c 411. r ses. 



Red Phalarope; Gray Phalarope. 



605. Philohela minor (Gm.) Gr. b 522. c 412. r 025. 



American Woodcock. 



606. Scolopax nisticula L. b — . c 413. r 524. (! e.) 



European Woodcock. 



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600. Re-cflr-vI-r6s'-trS Sm-Cr-I-ca'-nS. Lat. recurvus, bent upward, recurved, and rostrum, 



beak : as the bill of the avocet notably is. — The English word is either avocet ur avuget, 

 the meaning of which we know not. 



601. Hlm-Sn' tc'-pOs mSx-I-cS'-nQs. Gr. tfiavrdirovs, Lat. himantopus, the stilt, from Ifiit, 



genitive inivros, and iroCs, foot. Tlic former word means a thong or strap ; applied to 

 this bird on account of its very long leatliery legs like straps. Commonly accented on 

 the penult ; see Conlopiis, No. 380. 



This stands as 11. niijricollia of tlic orig. cd.; sec Cassin, Fr. Phila. Acad., 18G4, p. 240. 



60S. StSg-Sn'-C-pfls wll'-sSn-i. Gr. artyavSirovi, web-footed; <ntycai6s, webbed; oTc^cd^, a 

 web ; o-Tcvw, I cover, roof in, and iroCs, foot. Commonly accented on the penult ; see 

 Conto/nis, No. 380. 



603. Lflb'-I-p€s hy-pSr-bflr'-e-iis. Gr. \o$6s, Lat. lobus, a lobe, flap, and Lat. pes, foot ; " lobe- 



foot," in allusion to the flaps on the toes. — Lat. lii/fierboreus, Gr. {nrtp$6pfos, hyperborean, 

 in the extreme north, "beyond the north wind," in the sense of where the north wind 

 comes from. 



604. PhSl-Sr'-O-pQs fQl-I-cS'-rl-Qs. Gr. <t>a\apls, the coot, so called from the conspicuous 



white of the bill, ^<xKap6s meaning white, bright, clear, &c. ; and iroGr, foot ; phalaropua 

 is " coot-foot ; " the plialarope was early called " coot-footed tringa," from the flaps on 

 the toes, like those of a coot. The full form of the word would be plinlaridopus. — Lat. 

 fidicarius, relating to a coot ; the specific name being derived, like the generic, from the 

 lobate feet. See also Fulim, No. 080. See Contopus, No. 380. 



605. PhIl-6'-htl-5 mln'-5r. Gr. <pl\oi, loving, or a lover, and t'Aoi, a swamp. Commonly 



accented on a wrongly lengtliened penult. — Lat. minor, comparative degree of parvus, 

 smaller (than the European woodcock). 



606. Scfil'-fi-pSx rQs-tl'-cQ-lS. Gr. OKoK6iral, Lat. scoIofKix, a snipe; the name of this very 



species. The dictionaries give it as a theme, and any possible derivation is open to 

 conjecture, cf. o-icoAoi^, from the shape of the bill (most likely) ; vKtliKri^, a worm ; 

 (TKiKKti, I scratch. — Lat. rusticus,a, rustic, a countryman; diminutive rusticulus; from 

 rus, the country, as opposed to the city. The word occurs as rusllcola in Linnxus, and 

 has so almost universally been written ; but as Wharton shows (Ibis, 1870, p. 453), this 

 is erroneous. The word would be ruricola, if from rus and colo, I inhabit, liusticula is 

 good Latin, and the epithet of " little countryman " U very appropriate to the bird. 



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