274 SKETCHES OP EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



in the reformed nomenclature. Black-winged Longshank, — Himan- 

 topus melanopterus, — I'E'cliasse a manteau noir, Fr., — Cavaliere 

 grande Italiano, It.j — Schwarzfliigelige Strandreuter, G. ; formerly 

 included, by Linnaeus, under the genus Charadrius. Of this ge- 

 nus, there are only two species at present known : the subject of 

 the plate under review, a rare visitant of the British islands ; and 

 H. 7iigricollisj figured and described, by Wilson, in pi. Iviii., p. 340, 

 of vol. ii. of Jardine's Edition of Ainerican Ornithology, under the 

 name of Recurvirostra himantopus, or Long-legged Avocet. The 

 latter is regarded, by Bonaparte, as a distinct species from H. MexL 

 canus. 



Plate X. — European Francolin, — Francolinus vulgaris, — Fran- 

 colin a Collier roux, Fr., — Francolino, It, A n adult male and fe- 

 male, admirably delineated. The only European species of a genus 

 which, in the Natural System, connects the splendid Pheasants of 

 the East with the sober-tinted Quails and Partridges of the conti- 

 nent of Europe. This fine bird is the Perdix — , Tetrao Francoli- 

 nus, of our predecessors in ornithological arrangement. 



Plate XI. — The Rose-coloured Pastor, — Pastor (formerly, 

 Sturnus vel Turdus) roseus, — Martin Roselin, Fr., — Storno roseo. 

 It., — Rosenfarbige Drossel, G. The admirable figures of this rare 

 and beautiful bird, as here represented by Mr. Gould, in the adult 

 and immature male plumage; may proudly challenge comparison 

 with any iconographical productions in this department of science 

 which it has ever yet been our lot to examine. The colouring of 

 the adult is as splendid, and that of the young bird as chaste and 

 sober, as they are both correct. P. roseus is the only European 

 species of the genus ; seldom seen in Britain. Gould proposes as a 

 query whether the young bird of this be not the " Solitary Thrush, 

 of Bewick." 



Plate XII. — A minutely correct representation of the Arctic 

 Tern, — Sterna Arctica, — U Hirondelle-de-Mer Arctique, Fr.,-—' 

 confounded, till the time of Temminck, with the common Tern, — 

 S. hirundo ; from which it may be distinguished, at all ages, by its 

 smaller and more slender figure ; longer and more elegant tail ; 

 shorter and less robust beak and tarsus, and the wholly red colour of 

 the former. The eggs of S. arctica are smallest. The two species 

 do not associate together. See Northern Zoology, v. ii., p. 414. 



Plate XIII, and XIV. — To the separation of the two species of 

 Wagtail which respectively constitute the subjects of these plates, 

 from Motacilla, and their formation into the new genus, Budytes, 

 we are yet more strongly opposed than Mr. Gould. Such innovation 



