Note 891 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER
Reading edition
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.