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624. Pelidna alpina americana (Cass.) Allen, b sso. C424. u 030a. 



Atnerlcun Duullu. 



625. Anoylochilus subarquatus (GUld.) Kuup. b 620. c 425. ii 540. 



Curlew Suudpiper. 



626. Tringa canutus L. n 620. o 420. u 520. 



I{od«breu8ttt(l Sandpiper; Uoblu Suipe; Knot. [Sec Aildonda, No. 831. 



627. Calidris arenaria (L.) 111. fi 034. c 427. u 542. 



Sanderling. 



628. Limosa foeda (L.) Ord. b 047. c 428. u 543. 



Great 31arbled Godwlt. 



629. Limosa haemastica (L., 1758) Coucs. u 648. c 429. R 545. 



Hudsoulan tiodwit. 



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 625. 



P. a. im-er-I-ca'-na. See Parula, No. 03. 



An-cy-lO-chl'-liSs sQb-Sr-qua'-tQs. Gr. iyKu\6x*i\ot, having a curved bill: iyKiXos, 

 crooked, bent, from hyKiiv, tlie bent elbow, ami x<<'Aoti 'I'c niov.i.. , from a word signify- 

 ing to oi)en, to gnpe. — Lat. suUtri/uatiis, slightly curved ; see Anjuatella, No. 020. 



626. Trin'-gS can-Q'-tQs. Lat. Innija, or trym/a, or tri/mjas, a sandpiper ; not classic. Derived 

 from Gr. rp6yyas, nn obscure and obsolete word, occurring in Aristotle as the name of 

 some unknown bird. The species was very aptly named by Linnicus after old King 

 Canute, who, it is said, sat on the seashore and allowed the waves to reach him, to 

 rebuke his toadying courtiers who had declared the sea would obey his majesty, — a 

 myth according well with the liabits of sandpipers. — Cannliis, if it has any relation 

 with, or is of same meaning as caims, gray, hoary, iroKios, is well suited either to the 

 old king, or to this sandpiper in its winter dress. 



6S7> CaUid'>rIs i-rS-nS'-rl-S. Gr. <TKa\lipts or KoKlipis, Lat. sealidris or calidris, an obscure 

 Aristotelian bird, by some sujjposed to be the modern totanus calidris. The word is 

 apparently from aKoKis, some digging instrument, from vKdWai, I scra])e, rake, &c., and 

 refers to the same probing habits of this sandpiper that erciimtis signalizes. But the 

 form CImlidris also occurs, as in Belon for example ; whence some refer the word to the 

 Gr. xi.\il, Lat. calx, calculus, &c., considering that it alludes to the pebbly or shinp'" 

 beaches which the bird frequents. — Lat. nrt««nH.<(, relating to sand; (Jivho, sand, v.. a 

 sandy place, as the arena was, where gladiatorial and other sports were witnessed by 

 the Hoinan brutes. 



628. Li-mS'-sS fo5'-d5. Lat. limosus, miry, muddy ; litnus, mud, slime. — We can learn nothing of 



any such word asjidoa, and take it to be a misprint or other mistake for fwdus, -a, -urn, 

 ugly, unseemly, &c. It might be supposed to have some relation tn/adus, a coni])act, 

 treaty, the sense of which is seen in federal, confederate, &c., and the application of which 

 would be to the gregariousness of the bird. But fadus, in the latter sense, is not an 

 adjective ; it is fmbis,ftderis, and the adjectival form would he federaius ; while there is 

 an adjective fidiis, ugly, as well as a verb fido, to defile, the j)articipial of which is 

 fvdatus. In view of these facts, we propose to substituto/a'f/a iorfedmt, until some satis- 

 factory explanation of the latter can be given. Fedoa occurs at least as far back as 

 Edwards as the name of this species, and has since passed unchallenged. 



629. L. haSm-3s'-tI-cS. Gr. ai/iao-riKiis or ainartKii, hosniastic or hxmatic, of a bloody-red 



color ; aiixdaau, I make bloody ; af/io, blood ; referring to the red under parts, so con- 

 spicuous in this species. 



This stands as L, hudsonica in the orig. ed. See Coues, Bull. Nutt. Club, t, 1880, 

 p. 100. 



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