

, BLACK-NECKED STILT. 



{Himantopus nigricollis, Vieillot. Recurvirostra himantopiis, Wil- 

 son, vii. pi. 58. fig. 2. Phil. Museum, No. 4210.) 

 Sp. Charact. — White, neck above, scapulars and wings, black. — 



Female (or young.?) with the back, scapulars, and tertials dark 



brown. 



The Black-necked Stilt is common to many parts of South 

 as well as North America ; it is known at any rate to inhabit 

 the coast of Cayenne, Jamaica, and Mexico. In the United 

 States, it is seldom seen but as a straggler as far to the north 

 as the latitude of 41 o. About the 25th of April, according 

 to Wilson, they arrive on the coast of New Jersey in small 

 flocks of 20 or 30 together. These again subdivide into 



