[890] F. J. Gillen, in Report of the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, part iv., Anthropology (London and Melbourne, 1896), pp. 177–179; Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 189–193.
[891] As to the connexion of the plover with rain in Central Australia, see above, p. [259]. It is curious that the same association has procured for the bird its name in English, French (pluvier, from the Latin pluvia), and German (Regenpfeifer). Ornithologists are not agreed as to the reason for this association in the popular mind. See Alfred Newton, Dictionary of Birds (London, 1893–1896), pp. 730 sq.
[892] A. C. Haddon, “The Ethnography of the Western Tribe of Torres Straits,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xix. (1890) p. 401; Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. 350.
[893] W. W. Skeat, Malay Magic, p. 108.
[894] Fr. Boas, in Fifth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, p. 51 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for 1889).
[895] Fr. Boas, loc. cit.; id. in Sixth Report On the North-Western Tribes of Canada, pp. 58, 62 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for 1890); id. in Eleventh Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, p. 5 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for 1896).
[896] Fr. Boas, in Sixth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, pp. 39 sq. (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for 1890).
[897] British Central Africa Gazette, No. 86 (vol. v. no. 6), 30th April 1898, p. 3.
[898] Fr. Boas, loc. cit.
[899] Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Middletown, 1820), pp. 173 sq. (p. 198, Edinburgh, 1824).