SHORE BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 385 



in different colour and semi-palmated feet ; yet Coues returns this 

 bird under the name of pusilla to the old group, and without 

 giving his reasons, which no doubt are good, if known, but un- 

 known cannot stand before Hutchens, Nuttall, Richardson, Wil- 

 son and Buonaparte. In his key of North American birds had he 

 put the first discoverer's name to the specific, as he has done to 

 the generic name, it would have added much to the value of a 

 veiy useful work. Naturalists owe him much for sweeping away 

 the too numerous genera in the gulls and penguin ducks as Dar- 

 win calls them. I mean the very restricted genus of Scoter so 

 like in colour, bills and habits. 



List classed, after Dr. Coues. 



Squartolinas helvitica — Beetle head. 



Chavadius fulvus — Golden plover. 



iEgialitis vociferus — Kildeer. 



^Egialitis semi-pal matus — Ring neck. 



./Egialitis melodus — Piping plover. 



Strepsilus interpres — Turnston e.^ , . .. |j*js*jgg£foi .... :- 



Recurvirostra Americana Avoset. 



Machtoramphus griseus — Red breasted snipe. 



Ereunictes pusillus — Semi-palmated peep. 



Tringa minutella — Least peep. 



Tringa bairdis — Baird's peep. 



Tringa maculata — Pectoral sand piper. 



Tringa maritina — Purple sand piper. 



Tringa subarquata — Curlew sand piper. 



Calidris arenaria — Sanderling. 



Limosa fedora — Marbled godwit. 



Limosa Hudsonia — Hudson Bay godwit. 



Totanus semi-palmatus — Willet. 



Totanus melanolcucus— Great yellow shank. 



Totanus chloropus — Lesser yellow leg. 



Totanus solitarius — Solitaiy tattler. 



Tringoides maculata — -Spotted tattler. 



Actiturus bartremius — Bartram's tattler. 



Tryngites rufessens — Red breasted sand piper. 



Numenius longirostres — Long billed curlew. 



