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Totanus. hypoleucos. Ttto under or beneath, and \zvms white. Common 
Sandpiper. 
- macularia. Macula a spot. Spotted Sandpiper: 
-- glareola. Glarea sand, pebbles, shingle, which these birds frequent. 
- ochropus. yellowish-green, and noys-, a foot, Greenshank 
Sandpiper. 
- glottis. \j:Kc*}rrcc a tongue; having a long tongue.™ Ed.] Green 
Sandpiper. 
-— calidris. Redshank Sandpiper. 
Limosa. Limus, mud, which this bird frequents. Godwit. 
- rufa. Red. Red Godwit. 
. melanura. MsXxs black, and ov^tx a tail. Blacktailed Godwit. 
Avocetta.* Avocet. 
- recurvirostra. Having the bill bent backwards. Scooping Avocet. 
Scolopax. SxoXowal a Woodcock. Snipe. 
- Sabini. So named after Captain Sabine. Sabine’s Snipe. 
'- grisea* Dark grey. 
- gallinula. |^A diminutive term, signifying the small size of the 
bird.— Ed.] Jack Snipe. 
- gallinago. [Same as gallinula .— Ed.] Common Snipe. 
- major. Greater or larger. Great Snipe. 
--— rusticola. An inhabitant of the country. Wood Snipe. 
Numenius. Curlew. 
- phcBopus. (pxlos^ dark, and the countenance. Wimbrel Curlew. 
- arquata. Arched, curved (its bill being so). Common Curlew. 
Ibis> Ibis. 
- falcinellus. Falcula.^ a crooked hook, or talon- Glossy Ibis. 
Flatalea. [Signifies broad or wide, with regard to the bill.— Ed.] Spoonbill. 
- leucorodia. Kivxos white [and ^ohos red.—E d.] White Spoonbill. 
Grus. Crane. 
- cinerea. Ash-coloured, cinereous. Common Crane. 
Ciconia. Stork. 
- alba. White. White Stork. 
- nigra. Black. Black Stork. 
Botaurus. Compound of Bov<r a Bull, and Taurus a Bull, whose bellowing its 
note was supposed to resemble. Bittern. 
- stellaris. Stella a star; spotted, starred. Common Bittern. 
- Mohoko. A proper name. American Bittern. 
- minutus. Small, minute. Little Bittern. 
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