^^o.i., COUES'S OENITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY PHALAKOPODID^. 879 



I87G. KUMLEIN, A. L. Ou the Habita of Steganopus wilsoni. <^ Field and Forest, ii, 

 No. 1, July, 1876, pp. 11, 12. 



1876. NiCHOLLS, E. P. Gray Pharalope [Phalaropus fulicarius] near Kingsbridge. 



< Zoologist, 2d ser., xi, Feb., 1876, p. 4802. 



1877. Nelson, E. W. A Coutribution to the Biography of Wilson's Plialarope [Ste- 



ganopus Avilsoni]. <; Bull. Mitt. Ornith. Cluh, ii, No. 2, Apr., 1877, pp. 38-43. 

 Very full on its habits, especially on its breeding. 



1878. COUES, E. The Northern Phalarope [Lobipes hyperboreus] in North Carolina. 



< Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Cluh, iii. No. 1, Jan., 1878, pp. 40, 41. 



1878. Murdoch, J. Phalarope,— An Etymological Blunder. <^Bull. Nutt. Ornitlu 

 Clul), iii. No. 3, July, 1878, pp. 150, 151. 



Contends that the word should be written Phalaridopus, being from 4>a\api?, gen. -t'Sos, " a 

 coot ", and jToOs, "foot", not the adj. i^aAapo?, "white", as " Phalaropus " would seem to indi- 

 cate. ' ' ITevertheless, ' ' as the writer, who has well taken his point, continues, ' ' the name has 

 served so long as a distinguishing mark of the genus, that it would be by no means advisable 

 to attempt to make an exchange for the etymologically correct form "; especially as the form 

 ' ' Phalaropus ' ' represents no very great degree of contraction. Moreover, as the writer does 

 not state, 4>aKapl's, a coot, and i^aAapos, bright, white, shining, or otherwise conspicuous, are 

 etymologically the same, the former substantive being derived from the latter adjective and 

 having been applied to the bird because of its conspicuously colored bill ; there being this ad- 

 ditional reason for not insisting upon the change. Brisson certainly invented "Phalaropus" 

 to mean "coot-footed," but the (jiaXapa of the Greeks were any ornaments with which a thing 

 might be furnished, as the gems of a tiara, the studs of a helmet, the caparisons of a horse, 

 etc.; and "Phalaropus" is therefore not so far out of the way after all, for a bird whose feet 

 are remarkably "ornamented" or appendaged. 



1878. WiLLiSTON, S. W. On the adult male plumage of Wilson's Phalarope. (Ste- 

 ganopus Wilsoni Sab. ) <^ Trans. Kansas Acad. Science for 1877-8, yi, 1878, p. 39. 

 "What has hitherto been considered the young plumage of this bird, has been confounded 

 with [that of] the adult male." Description follows, with other remarks. 



